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2004-09-30 Europe

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Posted by Steve White 2004-09-30 12:00:00 AM|| || Front Page|| [11134 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "I hope to return to Iraq soon. It's a country that I really love," Pari said on Wednesday. "We were always treated with a lot of respect."

I wonder, would Pari be singing the same tune if the ransom wasn't paid and her fellow hostage had been beheaded?

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-09-30 12:12:10 AM|| 2004-09-30 12:12:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 imao==this "kidnapping" smells to high heaven

Posted by SON OF TOLUI 2004-09-30 12:12:13 AM|| 2004-09-30 12:12:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 This was criminal kidnapping for ransom not a terrorist kidnapping. The MO is not that of a terrorist one. The persons who claimed to have been the perps likely didn't have a thing to do with it. There are lots of criminals in Iraq and these were just some of the smarter ones. They likely are on their way out of Iraq with most of their cash for Sryia or Iran as I write this.

Posted by Sock Pupet of Doom 2004-09-30 1:33:33 AM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2004-09-30 1:33:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 These two women...are idiots and if I were their benefactor (another idiot), I'd demand my money back from the women before they set foot outside Italy, or the insane asylum where they should be kept a long time.

Posted by Anonymous6700 2004-09-30 7:43:23 AM|| 2004-09-30 7:43:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 In the future, we should refer to these women as terrorist fund-raisers, rather than hostages. If I were the Italians, I'd ask for a refund.

Posted by 2b 2004-09-30 7:55:37 AM|| 2004-09-30 7:55:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm with Son of Touli and the Sock Puppet. This sounded like a bad Kojak episode from the beginning.

Posted by tu3031 2004-09-30 9:20:13 AM|| 2004-09-30 9:20:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 at least they show to have a good spine...

Posted by lyot 2004-09-30 9:54:01 AM|| 2004-09-30 9:54:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Spines may be OK. Rest of the nervous system sadly deficient.

Posted by Bulldog 2004-09-30 10:05:50 AM|| 2004-09-30 10:05:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 I suspect this will be the final ransom payment for these two particular women.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2004-09-30 10:45:51 AM|| [http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2004-09-30 10:45:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Perhaps the girls are in on the deal? 25% wouldn't be unreasonable.

Whoring with a govt guarantee. A bit like Wall St participation in a World Bank stabilization program.

Posted by lex 2004-09-30 10:49:39 AM|| 2004-09-30 10:49:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 "We were always treated with a lot of respect."

Spoken like a true and grateful hooker of her favorite clients.

Posted by lex 2004-09-30 10:56:15 AM|| 2004-09-30 10:56:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 These two girls just like the "safe" attention of their male captors and the international celebrity aspect of all this, and I'll bet they have no idea they were being used by the Iraqi guys as political fodder. Or maybe they do and they "believe" in a better world run under Sharia. Naw . . . I think they just like pretending to be "saviors" of the world.

You know, there is so much poverty, and no lack of social problems in Italy--why in the heck aren't they working there to better the lives and educational opportunities of Italian children, or helping the indigent elderly, etc.? Whay are they going into a war zone? One wonders.

Posted by ex-lib 2004-09-30 12:25:32 PM|| 2004-09-30 12:25:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 25% goes to a numbered Lugano account for the girls, and they give 25% of that to Berlusconi's slush fund.

Posted by lex 2004-09-30 12:28:15 PM|| 2004-09-30 12:28:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 This stinks indeed. No surviving victim of a kidnapping by "jihadis for beheadings" would willingly return. They may have been complicit. The part about being blindfolded and well-treated sounds too convenient.

Posted by Kalle (kafir forever) 2004-09-30 1:00:56 PM|| [http://radio.weblogs.com/0103811/categories/currentEvents/] 2004-09-30 1:00:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Foreign Minister Franco Frattini tried to quash talk about a ransom cash payment, saying Italy just capitalised on years of good deeds in the Arab world to secure their release.

Pretty words don't conceal what happened-you find the sale of humans a legimitate business deal.

Posted by jules 187 2004-09-30 3:14:02 PM|| 2004-09-30 3:14:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 This stinks indeed. No surviving victim of a kidnapping by "jihadis for beheadings" would willingly return. They may have been complicit.

Especially given that they're going back to the heart of Terror Central. How, unless they were working there under the protection of the jihadis or a powerful gang, could these girls be assured that a different gang or group of jihadists would not capture and slaughter them this time around?

Posted by lex 2004-09-30 5:00:50 PM|| 2004-09-30 5:00:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Can't find where I read it, but I seem to recall that these two were said to have been in Iraq as aid workers since 1993. If so, then perhaps their employer has made clear its willingness to pay "protection" money.

Posted by lex 2004-09-30 8:38:41 PM|| 2004-09-30 8:38:41 PM|| Front Page Top

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