Just send her back!
In the comments thread on another post, Kevin Murphy kindly gave this heads-up:
Meanwhile Germany has released Mohammad Ali Hammadi, convicted of killing a US serviceman in a 1985 Beruit hijacking. They traded him for a German hostage in Iraq, who thinks her captors are really nice people and wants to go back. Her only complaint is that they had to kidnap a German because capturing Americans is too hard.
This loon, this “happy hostage”, one Susanne Osthoff, was quoted by al Jazeera as saying she “cannot blame them for kidnapping her, as they cannot enter [Baghdad's heavily fortified] Green Zone to kidnap Americans.”
Because she doesn’t mind being kidnapped, this Osthoff, a Muslim convert and fluent Arabic speaker, wants to go back to Iraq to continue her “humanitarian” work. The German government is opposed to the idea:
“It is regretful that Ms. Osthoff is not following the appeal of the German government not to return to Irak,” said Ruprecht Polenz, president of the German parliamentary committee on foreign affairs.
“She is precisely the one who should clearly see the risk of such a decision,” said Polenz.
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“After the intensive efforts of all parties involved over a period of three weeks in the end led to her being released, I would have little understanding if Ms. Osthoff found herself again in a dangerous situation,” said German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
I have little understanding as to what she was doing there in the first place. But, be that as it may, my German gentlemen, you fail to recognize a salient point in all of this; Ms. Osthoff is clearly insane.
December 27th, 2005 at 6:59 am
So she goes to Iraq and gets ‘kidnapped’ again, which gives the German government the excuse to let go another terrorist. It’s only a “dangerous situation” if the Germans don’t cave… which, as we all know, they won’t do.
December 27th, 2005 at 12:10 pm
It makes one wonder if she actually was “kidnapped” in the first place.