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KGB Reportedly Gave Arab Terrorists a Taste of Brutality to Free Diplomats (1986 article)
latimes.com ^ | January 7, 1986

Posted on 01/08/2020 5:04:03 AM PST by lowbridge

The Jerusalem Post said the Soviet secret police last year secured the release of three kidnaped Soviet diplomats in Beirut by castrating a relative of a radical Lebanese Shia Muslim leader, sending him the severed organs and then shooting the relative in the head.

The incident began when four Soviet diplomats were kidnaped last September by Muslim extremists who demanded that Moscow pressure the Syrian government to stop pro-Syrian militiamen from shelling rival Muslim positions in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli.

The militiamen, the Jerusalem paper said, did not cease their attacks, and the body of one of the Soviet diplomats, Arkady Katkov, was found a few days later in a field in Beirut.

The KGB then apparently kidnaped and killed a relative of an unnamed leader of the Shias’ Hezbollah (Party of God) group, a radical, pro-Iranian group that has been suspected of various terrorist activities against Western targets in Lebanon.

Parts of the man’s body, the paper said, were then sent to the Hezbollah leader with a warning that he would lose other relatives in a similar fashion if the three remaining Soviet diplomats were not immediately released. They were quickly freed.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: kgb; khb; lebanon; russia; terrorism
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To: lowbridge

Give them a taste of their own medicine.

That’s speaking a language they understand.

I would have added the contingency that the diplomats be unharmed in anyway and alive and healthy or there would be even worse retaliation.

Although maybe they added that, because I could see the muzzies returning the diplomats maimed and/or dead unless otherwise specified.


21 posted on 01/08/2020 6:26:18 AM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: lowbridge
castrating a relative of a radical Lebanese Shia Muslim leader,

Yikes, that's certainly going to get someone's attention......

22 posted on 01/08/2020 6:29:01 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: lowbridge

They know how to handle terrorists.

Just look at the Moscow Theater hostage situation.................


23 posted on 01/08/2020 6:35:33 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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To: crazycat

.that was so the sharks could see, what was for lunch.
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Good one! LMAO.


24 posted on 01/08/2020 6:46:34 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (abuse of power)
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To: lowbridge

Works everytime.


25 posted on 01/08/2020 6:56:03 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: God luvs America

You have to be more brutal and ruthless than they are.


26 posted on 01/08/2020 6:57:22 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: lowbridge

The type of justice I’ve been talking about here in the States. Hang or bang. Public caning.


27 posted on 01/08/2020 10:25:55 AM PST by Rannug (When you're dead, you're dead. Until then fight with everything you have.l)
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