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2003-08-26 Africa: North

Libya paid five million euro ransom for Sahara hostages

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Posted by Steve 2003-08-26 4:13:11 PM|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Outta one pocket and into the other...

Even if legit, Kadaffy is still a loonie tune, a murderer, and someone who could flip yet another page at any time. So he's playng nice lately with the oil money he loots from his dictatorship. That's respectable? Pfeh. He can't buy his way back into respectability just because the Europeans are too broke, weak, (fill in the blank), whatever to deal with a bunch of insane Izzoid Bedu wannabees skulking about in the desert. Another gaggle of dipshit moron tourists fucking with the bull, again, then everyone is so surprised when they get a bit of the horn. Holidays in the Axil of Evil, indeed. Squirrels.

To prove he's repectable, he should be given a gun, one bullet, and 30 minutes to say his RamaLamaDingDongsâ¢ - or be shot in the head as the rabid dog his whole life attests to.

Then we'll see if Jr is for real by what he does for, say, 20-30 yrs. We'll let you know, don't wait up, sonny.

Posted by .com 2003-8-26 5:21:09 PM|| 2003-8-26 5:21:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 That's not particularly pragmatic, PD. I'm as much as you are in trying to reclaim Wheelus AFB, but there are different tactics that can be used. Lifting sanctions will hurt Saudi that much more and therefore should be used.

Tangentially, didn't he also intervene in some Phillipeans terror issue last year?

Posted by Brian 2003-8-26 6:28:39 PM|| 2003-8-26 6:28:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 That musta got France's panties in a bunch (heh heh) - ON TOP OF their bitching and moaning that they didn't get as much blood money from Libya as the Lockerbie deal, this's gotta really grate....

Posted by Frank G 2003-8-26 6:40:37 PM|| 2003-8-26 6:40:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Yea, he paid ransom to Abu Sayyaf.
Ghaddafi is taking steps to make himself a low-priority target. As long as he is pursuing a course of lowering his profile below our attention threshold, I'm ok with him being alive and even remaining in power.
We can't accept him somehow becoming "indispensable". That's what the Soddis tried for, and it just doesn't work for us. "Irrelevant" is a completely different matter.

Posted by Dishman 2003-8-26 6:41:50 PM|| 2003-8-26 6:41:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Dishman is right. G'Daffyâ¢ is laying low because he sees what AOE roosters get when they crow too loud. We can deal with him, but we do not have to have a love fest with him, and he will NEVER gain respectability by trying to buy his way in. He is a life-long tyrant, but a useful idiot, and we should keep contacts with him, as they may serve our ends someday. Just do not eneable him, like the Soddis.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-8-26 7:08:45 PM|| 2003-8-26 7:08:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 The thing that really galls me about the whole situation is that Libya paid over $5 million to a terrorist organization, which can use the money to kill/capture even more Euro-weenies and other non-muslims, and we're supposed to be happy about it. Never, never, NEVER pay a ransom - it only encourages 'em to hold even MORE hostages and stage even more kidnappings. Hunt the sh$$heads down, strip 'em bare, and stake 'em face up to the highest sand dune in the area, using lightning rods and chains. Either the heat, the wind, or the lightning will get 'em, and it may take a long, painful time about it.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-8-26 9:25:19 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-8-26 9:25:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 I read on a German blog that the Germans want the kidnap victims to reimburse the state.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-8-27 12:17:20 AM|| 2003-8-27 12:17:20 AM|| Front Page Top

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