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2007-04-23 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

BBC reporter maybe not dead, kidnappers demand £2.5M

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Posted by Seafarious 2007-04-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11126 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I wonder...

The kidnapped BBC correspondent Alan Johnston, who was abducted in the Gaza Strip last month, has demanded a ransom of at least £2.5 million, according to an unconfirmed report yesterday.

Posted by twobyfour 2007-04-23 00:13|| 2007-04-23 00:13|| Front Page Top

#2 What the hell. Front him the money. He should get at least 3.5 million for his memoirs.

Posted by Penguin 2007-04-23 00:35|| 2007-04-23 00:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Have paleos ever let something like death interfere with a good shakedown before?

Posted by 3dc 2007-04-23 01:35|| 2007-04-23 01:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Lemme put it this way: I dare ya to kill 'im...

Posted by mojo">mojo 2007-04-23 01:35|| 2007-04-23 01:35|| Front Page Top

#5 "There. Now that ought to do it."

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2007-04-23 02:19|| 2007-04-23 02:19|| Front Page Top

#6 The BBC should be put on notice by Interpol that any attempt to pay the ransom will be construed as endeavoring to finance a known terrorist organization.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-04-23 03:46|| 2007-04-23 03:46|| Front Page Top

#7 Make BBC pay, be sure they get NO tax consideration at all, it's completely out of their own pocket.

Be sure BBC understands they're going to pay any future similar demands, also completely out of their own pocket.

Listen to the stockholders screaming, to the BBC ONLY MONEY COUNTS. Hit them where it hurts.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-04-23 06:01|| 2007-04-23 06:01|| Front Page Top

#8 Er Jim,

the BBC is funded by taxing every home in the U.K.

Posted by Bright Pebbles in Blairistan 2007-04-23 06:29|| 2007-04-23 06:29|| Front Page Top

#9 I'm beginning to wonder if this whole thing was dreamed up by the BBC as a way of diverting the feckless license payers' money to the BBC's favourite cause: the Palesplodians. After all, Johnston was the only Western reporter in the whole of Gaza - a bit suspicious, methinks...

Posted by Sonar 2007-04-23 08:10|| 2007-04-23 08:10|| Front Page Top

#10 Johnstone thought he was OK becuase he'd basically stopped being a reporter and had become a propaganda arm for the Gaza Strip's inhabitants.

Posted by Bright Pebbles in Blairistan 2007-04-23 08:15|| 2007-04-23 08:15|| Front Page Top

#11 I demand the kidnappers call the police then shoot themselves in the head, or we will write nasty stuff about them!

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-04-23 09:56|| 2007-04-23 09:56|| Front Page Top

#12 This a Beeb plot to give licence payers' money to the Paleos. Pure and simple.

Posted by Howard UK 2007-04-23 10:08|| 2007-04-23 10:08|| Front Page Top

#13 Said Mr Johnston to his 'captors':
"I'll split it with you..."

Posted by Mullah Richard 2007-04-23 10:42|| 2007-04-23 10:42|| Front Page Top

#14 Well at least the price is set. Now the Pali's figure out the split, which could take another six months.
And I doubt our boy Alan gets a say or a cut...

Posted by tu3031 2007-04-23 13:10|| 2007-04-23 13:10|| Front Page Top

#15 Draw humiliating cartoons of the kidnappers and see if they can avoid venting their rage on the nearest Infidel.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-04-23 13:30|| 2007-04-23 13:30|| Front Page Top

#16 Draw humiliating cartoons of the kidnappers and see if they can avoid venting their rage on the nearest Infidel.

Yep, someone draw a cartoon of the kidnappers getting a job, that should do it.

Posted by Sonar 2007-04-23 13:48|| 2007-04-23 13:48|| Front Page Top

#17 I mean a normal everyday job that doesn't involve AK-47s or Semtex.

Posted by Sonar 2007-04-23 13:51|| 2007-04-23 13:51|| Front Page Top

#18 I mean a normal everyday job that doesn't involve AK-47s or Semtex.

Thanks to the splodeydopes, those kinds of jobs don't exist any more. Because of the splodeydopes, what few people had any kinds of jobs (government) that did exist now don't get paid. Draw pictures of them as yappy dogs on a leash, held by Iran. That would at least be truthful. Draw them as miniature French Poodles, so the humiliation will be complete.
(Apologies in advance to JFM and a8059)

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-04-23 15:22|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-04-23 15:22|| Front Page Top

#19 Let's pay them this time but never do it again. That ought to work.

Posted by gorb 2007-04-23 15:35|| 2007-04-23 15:35|| Front Page Top

#20 Like a line drawn in the sand.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-04-23 15:53|| 2007-04-23 15:53|| Front Page Top

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