Ex-hostage hires bounty hunters

Herald Sun Australia ^ | 26 June 2005

[naturalman1975]

A HOSTAGE held alongside Australian Douglas Wood in Iraq has hired bounty hunters to track down his former captors, promising to eliminate them one by one.

Swede Ulf Hjertstrom, who was held for several weeks with Mr Wood in Baghdad, was released by his kidnappers on May 30.

Mr Hjertstrom has since claimed he shared information with US and Iraqi troops about Mr Wood which led to the release of the 63-year-old Australian engineers two weeks ago, after 47 days in captivity.

Now, he wants to find those responsible.

"I have now put some people to work to find these bastards," he told the Ten Network today.

"I invested about $50,000 so far and we will get them one by one."

[naturalman1975]

This came up in Douglas Woods: His Story, an interview/documentary broadcast on Australian TV this evening. I videoed it and have captured it on my PC and am now converting it to a realmovie - if I can figure out a way of doing so, I'd love to let other people see it - it's a quite inspiring program - among its features, are brief interviews with some of the US troops who helped to rescue Mr Woods.

[corkoman]

Cool - some mercs have a job to do. I hope this gets covered in a subtle way - dont want to warn off the cretins.

[R. Scott]

Hope the mercs don’t get charged with murder for doing a good job.

[GVnana]

Please post a link when you have it!

[Woodman]

I like the way this man thinks.

[Fred Nerks]

That's great news! I missed the start of the programme and would really appreciate being able to see the beginning. It was on the whole very well put together and as you say, inspiring. Highly recommended viewing...three stars?
Please let me know if you succeed in your project.

[Jeff Chandler]

I'm sure the fembot democrats will be appalled.

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

All right!

[sgtbono2002]

Ruthlessness is the only thing that works with terrorists. Take these people out at home when they are eating with their family and kill the family too. The Russians have a name for it I forget that name but it works.

[ryan71]

This is the coolest thing I've ever heard.

I wish it would start a trend.

[mark502inf]

A lot of things get contracted out nowadays.

[RandallFlagg]

I'm sure the fembot democrats will be appalled.

AND, they'll blame Bush for it.

[xp38]

[Aussie Dasher]

It was a good interview. I was in tears when Woods was reunited with his grandchildren. I hope you can work out a way to share it in FR.

I cheered when I heard about the bounty hunters. These terrorist arseh*les just might think twice before peddling their grizzly trade if they know they could face "upfront and personal" retaliation.

[Mad Mammoth]

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Hjertstrom has a nice ring to it!

Now THERE is a Swede you don't mess with!

[naturalman1975]

Watching it, you can see why both Wood and the Swede seem to have come through their ordeal in pretty good shape - they both seem like tough nuts to crack.

I should be able to work out something with the file - it's mostly a matter of finding some webspace to put it up on - it's not likely to be huge but it's not tiny either (somewhere between 10MB and 30MB, I think when it's finished processing).

[gate2wire]

"Upfront and personal retaliation"

Not only that, these "private contractors" could probably find some creative uses for pig blood and entrails which might really spook the islamofascists (think Gen. Pershing in the Phillipines).

[gate2wire]

Phillipines=Philippines Sheesh

[varon]

Ruthlessness is the only thing that works with terrorists. Take these people out at home when they are eating with their family and kill the family too.

You have a winning formula :-)