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2004-09-30 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Bulldog 2004-09-30 3:26:15 AM|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Very interesting "the other" hostages? An the location of the same? Wonder if we have acted on this?

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-09-30 8:01:46 AM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2004-09-30 8:01:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 The release was arranged through a Lebanese middleman The Lebanese have a great deal of experience with kidnappers. And a longer history as traders -- going back to Biblical times. How pleased they all must be that they were able to bargain down the ransom cost!

Posted by trailing wife 2004-09-30 10:27:02 AM|| 2004-09-30 10:27:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Market's softening. Chirac paid off Lebanese middlemen about $5M back in 1988.

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

#4 Kidnapping Europeans for ransom is an old and honored Arab tradition. Looks like they've rediscovered one of the few renewable industries in the Arab world.

Posted by ed 2004-09-30 10:32:53 AM|| 2004-09-30 10:32:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 This is the way Europe (and most of the rest of the world) does business: cash for humans. No transaction is too unethical. Think they're reconsidering the slave trade?

Posted by jules 187 2004-09-30 10:38:26 AM|| 2004-09-30 10:38:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 "From the hall of Montezu-u-ma
To the shores of Tripoli"

Posted by trailing wife 2004-09-30 10:38:41 AM|| 2004-09-30 10:38:41 AM|| Front Page Top

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