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Further to recent news that Douglas Wood’s fellow captive Ulf Hjertstrom planned to have their kidnappers whacked, the Stockholm Spectator reports:
Hjertström, an oil broker whose career took him to Iraq 25 years ago, makes no bones about the decision to exact revenge on his abductors. “I’ve lived [in Iraq] for a long time. This is how things are done there. It’s nothing new to me,” he says.
Hearty Hjertström “doesn’t want to go into detail” about the bounty hunters, but assures Expressen that they are “the best money can buy.”
“They’re not twiddling their thumbs,” declares Hjertström, revealing that he has “received confirmation that two of [the kidnappers] have already been taken care of.”
UPDATE. Donnah comments: “Was it Allawi again?”
(Via LGF)
As long as they didn’t use insensitive language.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 06 30 at 10:22 PM • permalinkHave a look at what’s going on next door in Iran. Can Mr Hjertstrom put any of the embassy hostages in touch with some decent bounty hunters?
Posted by Young and Free on 2005 06 30 at 10:45 PM • permalinklingus4 — so “taken care of” doesn’t mean “sleeps with the camels…?”
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 06 30 at 11:03 PM • permalinkPerhaps the bounty hunters introduced them to the latest in concrete footwear fashions shortly before taking them on a scenic cruise of the Euphrates.
Posted by Tommy Shanks on 2005 06 30 at 11:25 PM • permalinkI was just thinking the phrase “Stockholm Syndrome” is rapidly changing meaning thanks to Hjertstrom. Psychiatrists will have to start referring to the original condition as the “Sgrena Syndrome” for clarity.
Posted by Tommy Shanks on 2005 06 30 at 11:31 PM • permalinkTommy Shanks — That’s why organized crime in the Middle East has no class.
Sticking the guy’s feet in cement and then just… well, leaving him standing there… looks silly. But it can be a bitch of a commute to the nearest dock…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 06 30 at 11:52 PM • permalinkso “taken care of” doesn’t mean “sleeps with the camels…?”
Unfortunately no, as they do that on a regular basis while still alive. (swearing all the while that they’re ‘just good friends’...)
Posted by tree hugging sister on 2005 07 01 at 12:01 AM • permalinkWe’re not “losing this war,” thanasi. Unless you are actually on the other side, in which case, I guess you are losing this war.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 07 01 at 12:34 AM • permalinkI agree with your earlier posts on this, The_Real_JeffS. Although we might get some visceral satisfaction from thinking about Mr Hjertstrom exacting revenge on his tormentors, if doing so complicates the task of restoring order in Iraq by the Iraqi forces and their coalition allies then that is likely to be counter-productive in the long term.
I’d rather see Mr Hjertstrom put aside or delay his revenge rather than add another difficulty to the tasks of the forces fighting to end the insurgency so that the Iraqi people can have a decent and peaceful future.
Or “punishing the one-eyed mullah”?
(Apologies to Jonah Goldberg.)
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2005 07 01 at 08:12 AM • permalinkI assumed from the start that most of the kidnappings were done by criminals as opposed to terrorists. The crims then sold the kidnap victims to terrorists. I wonder if some of the money is not getting through to the people who pay the crims for the terrorists.
I would sugest that there is little deterent effect to arresting and placing kidnappers in prison. These people know the restraints placed upon coalition forces.
I agree with Mr. Swede. Kill the kidnappers wherever you find them. The lack of intelligence will be be more than offset by the deterent effect.
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