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Was $5 or 6 Million Ransom Paid For Private Bergdahl? |
2014-06-04 |
Tuesday on NewsMax TV, former U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Col. Oliver North said U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was not a prisoner of war because he was actually being held "hostage" by the Haqqanis, a terrorist group separate from the Taliban and associated heavily with al Qaeda. North said he knew there was at least a $1 million dollar ransom being demanded for Bergdahl some time ago so he estimated the price paid to release the hostage must be close to $5-6 million now. "Someone paid a ransom," North said. "Whether the Qataries paid it, or some big oil sheik, or somebody used our petrodollars, but there was a ransom paid in cash for each one of them, my guess somewhere in the round numbers of $5 or 6 million to get Bergdahl freed. I know that the offer that was on the table before was close to a million." |
Posted by:Bubba Graiting8281 |
#8 Money paid to the Qataries for a year's worth of maintenance and babysitting? |
Posted by: SteveS 2014-06-04 22:57 |
#7 Leaving $4.995 billion left in Obama's anti-terror budget. |
Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-06-04 18:54 |
#6 There isn't any ammo for sale. DHS, PO, and FDA have it all. |
Posted by: irishrageboy 2014-06-04 17:10 |
#5 I wonder how much ammo that will buy. |
Posted by: gorb 2014-06-04 16:34 |
#4 I would have released the five of them in the Algerian Sahara near the border with Mauritania. It hasn't rained there in 3,000 years and there isn't a road or a cell phone tower for a 1000 clicks in any direction. Let their nutjob buddies find them. |
Posted by: Bill Clinton 2014-06-04 12:44 |
#3 Then they should have released them in Thailand or the Philippines if it wasn't for the usual local muslim (religion of peace) terrorism being carried out over there as well. |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-06-04 08:45 |
#2 Hookers and blow, Bobby, hookers and blow... |
Posted by: Steve White 2014-06-04 08:16 |
#1 That's a million for each Taliban big-shot released. Maybe it was for room and board for their year in Qatar? |
Posted by: Bobby 2014-06-04 07:44 |