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| Iraq-Jordan |
| Green Brigade hostage-takers conclude Italian population have been good dhimmis |
| 2004-05-01 |
| Are these jihadiscum easily pleased, believing their own media’s hyping of Italian turnouts, or just bought off?... Three Italian hostages in Iraq have been saved from harm by street protests in Rome, a militant group has told al-Jazeera TV. Earlier this week, a group calling itself the Green Brigade threatened to kill the men within five days unless Italians staged demonstrations. The Arabic TV channel quoted a statement saying that Thursday’s protests had satisfied the demand. There was no immediate confirmation of the authenticity of Saturday’s statement. "They are telling the Italian people that they appreciate how the Italian people went onto the streets and now they are not going to harm the hostages," a spokesman for the Qatar-based channel told Reuters news agency. Al-Jazeera said the statement also called on the Italian government to seek the release of "political prisoners" held in prison in Kurdish areas of Iraq. References to the statement were later dropped from al-Jazeera bulletins. So, um, what happens now? |
| Posted by:Bulldog |
| #2 proper response would've been 2.5 million per head on the kidnappers, double if the hostages were rescued alive - turn these bastards on each other |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-05-01 5:31:44 PM |
| #1 So, um, what happens now? More demands will be issued until they make ones so patently absurd that the hostages are killed anyway. Does anyone doubt this outcome (barring secret ransom payments)? Spoon feeding the kidnappers this sort of global publicity is merely kissing the hand that slaps you. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-05-01 4:55:18 PM |