novita77

Guys,

Sure you follow the story about Margaret Hassan. She lives in Iraq, spend all her life to help Iraqi people, but why 'they' still kidnap her?

Beduoin_Boy

They Bombed sergio de mello, the Red Cross and Sunni Clerics !!!

So can't answer your question myself "but why 'they' still kidnap her?"

novita77

BB, sorry for for my dumb blonde moment. What/where/who is Sergio de Mello???

Jellybean

Because BB the Brits are moving 850 soldiers from Basra to Baghdad, when this has been completed it will release the American troops to launch an attack on Fallujah. The kidnappers are saying that they will release her if the UK does not relocate its' troops to Baghdad.

novita77

But I still think the lady have nothing to do with the army. She live there for years. 'They' only dare to kidnap soft targets: Indonesian maid, Nepalese cheap labours, construction workers, aid-workers. Why don't these 'brave' criminals take somebody more warranted ie: military/political personnel?

Jellybean

A: youwould never get to a military general.

B: Even if you did it wouldn't have the same sympathetic impact as when you kidnap a neutral/woman/family type of person.

Why did the Chechyans kill 200+ children?????

Beduoin_Boy

They killed Sergio! He was the Head of the U.N in Iraq! He loved the iraqi ppl, he dedicated his life there


They just want to create a mess, bcoz it will breed more mess.

shiva

and in that mess criminals can carve out little empires, its not about occupation or terrorism its about mafia style crime. there is a power vacuum and the criminals are filling it and blaming it on "insurgents".

DanMarsden

Who are the "they", that is the question. And who's benefiting from those "kidnappings", that is also the question.

shiva

follow the money, most nations are paying ransom money either directly or indirectly. quite a lucrative little industry just now.

DanMarsden

ransom money? really? any solid report of that? haven't heard of any admission of the such, I must admit.

Elles

well you wouldn't hear of it as that would mean the governments are caving in to their demands. Ransoms are being offered and paid not by governemtnts but by the famillies of those kidnapped.

DanMarsden

I am sorry, but that is not good enough. Unless there's solid proof, I am not willing to accept that as a fact.

Elles

ok, so go ask the relative of the person who was kidnapped.....the government isn't gonna tell you anything or let the media report ransoms are being paid....duh! That would just encourage more innocents to be captured and held!

DanMarsden

First of all, what you just said was a fine case of an "unfalsifiable" claim, since I have no means of contacting those families, and they probably wouldn't talk to me. Again, I am not claiming that it's not possible for ransom money to have been paid, only that we cannot use it as a premise to base other arguments on before we know for sure that this is indeed the case.