Saturday, January 28, 2006

For Her a Killer Was Freed?

From Reuters:

Report says ransom money found on Osthoff
Sat Jan 21, 2006 2:35 PM GMT

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...
This, by the way, is the same Susanne Osthoff who campaigned to stop the looting
of artifacts and brought reporters to areas where looting was still going on after the
US invasion.

So was she part of the kidnapping? I mean, the planning part, not the
getting kidnapped part. She, who said, “poor people [and I] cannot blame them for
kidnapping me, as they cannot enter the [fortified and heavily guarded] Green Zone
[in Baghdad] to kidnap Americans. I was treated well … they were not criminals
[and their action] was political”
Yeah, and quite profitable for all concerned.

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