Posted on 01/10/2006 7:47:07 AM PST by the Real fifi
Stetham's murderer and Osthoff
German sources, the UPI is reporting, say that Susanne Osthoff, the kidnapped archeologist who was released just before Christmas, was in fact a free lance spy for her country: These sources, admit that a ransom was paid for her release but deny that the release of Muhammad Ali Hamadi, the man who tortured and murdered Robert Dean Stetham was a coincidence, a decision not made by the Federal Republic.
A convert to Islam and a fluent Arabic speaker, Osthoff had lived in Iraq for over a decade, and was at one time married to an Iraqi. Archeology is a classic intelligence cover: T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) posed as an archeologist in the Middle East in the early part of the last century. But archeology is Osthoff’s real profession. One Washington-based German source said Osthoff had been working on arranging a rendezvous with an al-Qaida member on behalf of a German intelligence agent in Iraq. Whether the meeting ever took place has not been revealed, but another source in Berlin, reached by telephone, said experts believed that the kidnapping may have been the work of a rival group, possibly within the same organization
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I believe that there is a typo here.
"but deny that the " should read "but contend that"..
"Coincidence? I don't think so!"
Neither does the author as you can see.
The error has been corrected--
{quote]German sources, the UPI is reporting, say that Susanne Osthoff, the kidnapped archeologist who was released just before Christmas, was in fact a free lance spy for her country: These sources, admit that a ransom was paid for her release but contend that the release of Muhammad Ali Hamadi, the man who tortured and murdered Robert Dean Stetham, was a coincidence, a decision not made by the Federal Republic.[/quote]
Terminate with extreme prejudice. That is all.
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