Susanne Osthoff and friends
Three hajabs wraps on your friends. $12
One plastic RPG-7 oand AK74. $27
Extoriting german tax dollars for your own personal profit: Priceless.
Posted on 01/21/2006 7:37:27 AM PST by jmc1969
BERLIN (Reuters) - 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.
Efforts to contact Osthoff for comment through her mother and a friend failed.
A spokeswoman at the German Foreign Ministry declined to comment on the report. The German government is known to have paid ransoms for hostages in the past, but has refused to comment on whether it did so for Osthoff.
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Sounds like a dumb scam artist.
ping
Rut Roh..
Was this the kidnapping in which part of the ransom was the release from prison of an airplane hijacker who tortured and killed a US marine hostage?
Dumkopfs!!
"The serial numbers on the bills matched those used by the government to pay off Osthoff's kidnappers, the magazine said. "
One statement!
"The German government is known to have paid ransoms for hostages in the past, but has refused to comment on whether it did so for Osthoff."
In the first statement, the government seems to have paid off the ransom. In the second, they deny same!!!???
What am I missing?
She got a vig?
What fools they are.
I think that the majority of these "kidnappings" where the victims are released are actually a scam with two objectives.
1) Help raise money for their friends, the terrorists
2) Make the kidnappers out to be noble when they release the victim.
When I heard about the CSM reporter getting kidnapped, I figured either she was with them and helping them, or was with them and ended up getting used by them. Either way, she was probably with them.
If they cut her head off, then I am wrong.
Maybe she could serve out the murdering dog's sentence that she is responsible for nullifying!
Excellent question.
Ping
You are missing the reporters obvious inability to make the conclusion or ask.... How did the german government know the seriial numbers on US dollar bills if they had not paid the ransom>?
http://medienkritik.typepad.com/blog/2005/12/susanne_osthoff.html
Yep. She is. :-( And I really buy that denial, don't you?
Three hajabs wraps on your friends. $12
One plastic RPG-7 oand AK74. $27
Extoriting german tax dollars for your own personal profit: Priceless.
She should appear on Oprah.
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