German says Zarqawi behind her abduction (Germany pays Zarqawi for Hostage)

ABC News ^ | Dec 28 2005

[jmc1969]

I was quite clearly told about whom it concerned, namely a grouping of the Abu Musab al-Zarqawi group," Susanne Osthoff said in an interview conducted by German public television station ZDF on Tuesday and broadcast on Wednesday.

Zarqawi, who has a $25 million reward offered for his capture, is blamed for a relentless series of attacks, suicide bombings and beheadings in Iraq. His supporters have killed many, if not most, of the people they are known to have abducted.

The archaeologist, who converted to Islam and lived in Iraq, was seized heading north from Baghdad on November 25 by gunmen who threatened in a videotape to kill her and her driver unless Germany ended all support for the Iraqi government.

She was freed by December 18 after the intervention of the German government, which has declined to comment on any conditions for her release.

[jmc1969]

I wonder how many million Germany paid Zarqawi.

I am guessing it was something over ten million.

[airborne]

I wonder how many American soldiers will die as a result of weapons purchased with German blood money?

[bnelson44]

I don't see where it says Germany paid anything for her release.

[jveritas]

I think as part of the deal to release the German hostage in Iraq the terrorists demanded Germany to free the terrorist who hijacked the TWA plane in Beirut in 1985, and the coward Germans did what the terrorists demanded.

[Ninian Dryhope]

On the other hand, you did not see her head hacked off either, did you?

Germany paid and they freed a terrorist as well.

Germany sucks.

[mlbford2]

"I don't see where it says Germany paid anything for her release. "


Exactly. I'm sure the terrorists let her go for 4 plates of hummus and a bootleg dvd of King Kong.

[fallujah-nuker]

I wonder how many American soldiers will die as a result of weapons purchased with German blood money?

And adding insult to injury we troops stationed in Germany to protect those pigs who also released the terrorist Hamadi, responsible for the murder of Seaman Robert Stethem in 1985. We should pull our troops out, recall our ambassador, sever diplomatic relations and start removing the cylinder heads off all autos imported from Germany in case there are drugs being smuggled inside.

[GarySpFc]

I think as part of the deal to release the German hostage in Iraq the terrorists demanded Germany to free the terrorist who hijacked the TWA plane in Beirut in 1985, and the coward Germans did what the terrorists demanded.

Correct! That came out later.

[Rudder]

I thought Germany's recent relase of a captured terrorist was payment.

[mtbopfuyn]

Bush's fault. If only he hadn't cut off their finances, she wouldn't have been kidnapped.

/s

[68skylark]

I don't see where it says Germany paid anything for her release.

You're right. But I think most people who follow these matters assume that Germany paid a hefty ransom -- like France, they have a long and despicable habit of that sort of practice, and worse.

[Yaelle]

What did the German people think about this before her release? They are so anti-war. This woman sounds German in passport only -- she's Muslim and speaks Arabic. Was there pressure to negotiate with Zarqawi? How lovely, to give him more power in the world.

[prairiebreeze]

According to Michelle Malkin:

The German government, which reportedly paid ransom to get her back, is now whining because she's going back to Iraq.

You get what you pay for, terrorist subsidizers.

Apparently the latest little German Islamic apologist stated she "...was so happy to know that I had not fallen into the hands of criminals," and she demanded humanitarian aid for the Sunnis.

[ApplegateRanch]

There is plenty more out her mouth here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1547961/posts

Just a few quotes:

"I was so happy to know that I had not fallen into the hands of criminals," she said. Osthoff, a Muslim convert who speaks fluent Arabic, said her captors demanded German humanitarian aid for Iraq's Sunni Arabs and stated clearly that they did not want a ransom.

"They said we don't want money. Maybe we want from Germany, hospitals and schools in the Sunni triangle, an area northwest of Baghdad, and they would like to get money in the form of humanitarian aid," she said.

She described her captors as "poor people" and that she "cannot blame them for kidnapping her, as they cannot enter Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone to kidnap Americans."

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Or,Here's another article on this woman: there are also some comments from Germans about her...not all comlimentary:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-1960898,00.html

The Times December 28, 2005

Ex-hostage's Iraq return angers her rescue team
From Roger Boyes in Berlin

THE German Government angrily rebuked a former hostage yesterday who is determined to return to Iraq despite being held captive for three weeks by a Sunni gang.
Susanne Osthoff, a 43-year-old archaeologist, announced this week on al-Jazeera television that she would go back to her work in northern Iraq, trying to set up a German cultural centre in Arbil.

[Yaelle]

She described her captors as "poor people" and that she "cannot blame them for kidnapping her, as they cannot enter Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone to kidnap Americans."

Poor things. They couldn't kidnap the Americans so she totally understood that they HAD to kidnap her. Didn't Crosby, Stills and Nash write a song about that? "If you can't kidnap the ones you want, kidnap the ones you're with"?

[river rat]

""I was so happy to know that I had not fallen into the hands of criminals," she said. Osthoff, a Muslim convert who speaks fluent Arabic......"

Wow, it appears some European "women" have gone insane....

Semper Fi

[ApplegateRanch]

NBC aired the infuriating (propaganda) interview with the Taliban 'commander' yesterday supposedly "to show us the face of the enemy"

ABC puts out THIS sanitized report today, while ignoring what she is saying to Al Jazeera for Arab consumption.

And we're supposed to believe our media is "unbiased"!

I hate to think what CBS's attempted topper will be.

[McGavin999]

I thought they freed that guy who killed the American back in the hostage situation years ago. He's wanted by us for murder. He was supposed to have a life sentence and suddenly the Germans freed him. I think THAT was the ransome.

[jmc1969]

She was freed by December 18 after the intervention of the German government, which has declined to comment on any conditions for her release.

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Any time they decline to comment on the conditions of release of a terrorism suspect means they made a deal.

[jmc1969]

I suspect it was money and and that.