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2005-04-27 Europe

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Posted by Steve 2005-04-27 8:51:39 AM|| || Front Page|| [11 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Segrena: "ASASSINOS! Voleurs!"

Gil Grissom: "That's not what the evidence says."

Posted by mojo 2005-04-27 12:16:13 PM|| 2005-04-27 12:16:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Put her back in it and reenact it. Ten or twelve times. Until you get it right.

Posted by tu3031 2005-04-27 12:21:49 PM|| 2005-04-27 12:21:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 A good summary of Sgrena by Andrew Bolt: The power of lies. Truly a waste of skin.

Posted by ed 2005-04-27 12:31:13 PM|| 2005-04-27 12:31:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 We should have put about 100 of those plastic stick-on bullet holes all over the car before we turned it over to the Italian ransom payers.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-04-27 8:41:08 PM|| 2005-04-27 8:41:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 "On the day of Sgrena's release, Iraqi TV broadcast the interrogation by police of several local and foreign terrorists who had been hired to slaughter nine Iraqi policemen for $250 a head."

Is there substantiation for the ransom story? If so

Somebody in Italy gave murdering/human trafficking jihadis money.
The jihadis buy sustenance in the form of protection, food, ammo.
Iraqis and coalition soldiers die from that ammo.

And now someone floats the notion that we should be supplicant to Italy in accepting our report? Phooey.

Posted by jules 2 2005-04-27 9:12:37 PM|| 2005-04-27 9:12:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Jules,
Take your pick from a list of Iraqi TV translations: CONFESSIONS OF CAPTURED TERRORIST.
Just from the first item #630:
Muhammad Ramadhan: I slaughtered two while they held them for me.
Interviewer: How much did you get for this slaughtering?
Muhammad Ramadhan: The three of us got $1,200 in total.
Interviewer: $1,200 for six slaughtered people?
Muhammad Ramadhan: Each of us got $400.
Interviewer: $200 for each slaughtered person.
Muhammad Ramadhan: Yes, sir.

Posted by ed 2005-04-27 9:27:27 PM|| 2005-04-27 9:27:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Jules,
I may have misunderstood. If you are asking for verification by the Italian gov that they paid ransom for Sgrena, then you won't get it. They are not going to officially admit they paid blood money for that communist bitch. Money that will be used kill hundreds or thousands of Iraqis and to atack US troops (who are supposedly an ally). But here is a BBC report detailing ransom rumors.
Italy's ransom dilemma
The Italian media have been carrying unconfirmed reports that 6m euros ($7.9m, Â£4.1m) changed hands to free Ms Sgrena. The government has not confirmed the claims, but for the first time there has been no official denial either.

When two young Italian aid workers were freed in September 2004, then Foreign Minister Franco Frattini denied that a ransom had been paid. But MP Giuliano Selva said the denial was "purely official", and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi spoke of a "difficult choice which had to be made".
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Talking to Italian daily Corriere della Sera, Agriculture Minister Gianni Alemanno said thought it "very likely" that a ransom had been paid, and justified the move. "It is far preferable to pay a price that is relatively low compared to the value of a human life and to the political price of being blackmailed into pulling out the troops," he said.

Posted by ed 2005-04-27 9:41:58 PM|| 2005-04-27 9:41:58 PM|| Front Page Top

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