Well it seems we have a new occupation provided by the Political Left.
Temp Hostages.
This is a really explosive bit of new, I wonder how much coverage it will get in the Major Media Outlets?
Were Kidnappers Osthoff's Business Partners?
A strange development in the Osthoff case...
Report says ransom money found on Osthoff
Part of the ransom money alleged to have been paid by the German government to win the freedom of Iraq hostage Susanne Osthoff last month was found on Osthoff after her release, the German magazine Focus said on Saturday.
Without citing its sources, Focus said officials at the German embassy in Baghdad had found several thousand U.S. dollars in the 43-year-old German archaeologist's clothes when she took a shower at the embassy shortly after being freed.
The serial numbers on the bills matched those used by the government to pay off Osthoff's kidnappers, the magazine said---
More on the Osthoff case from
John Rosenthal...
Osthoff herself caused a stir when she said in an interview at the end of December that she did not believe her kidnappers were criminals. "
Why am I not surprised by that statement?
One recalls the Japanese Kidnapping? I seem to remember that there was some information on their personal websites before they left, indicating that they would be taking part in some dramatic event that would "make a difference"??
ANTI-USA/PRO-ACTIVIST JAPANESE WEBSITE OF JAPAN 'HOSTAGE' FOUND/TRANSLATED (IRAQ)
On thing was certain the Japanese Public was not pleased with their manipulations.
Hostages Get Icy Welcome Home
The three hostages including a woman who went to Iraq to help street children in Baghdad had been shown on television being threatened by their knife-brandishing kidnappers but a hand written sign at the airport in Tokyo on their return, which read "You got what you deserve!" was a sign of worse to come. Another compatriot wrote on the website of one of the former hostages: "You are Japan's shame," and to add insult to injury, the Japanese Government billed the returnees $6,000 for the air fares. By this weekend, the former hostages were in hiding from an angry public.
Now let's see how the German Public Reaction plays out? ;-)
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Updated: Sunday, 22 January 2006 12:01 AM CST