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2014-09-14 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

'Qatar Paid Ransom For Release Of Fijian Peacekeepers'

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Posted by trailing wife 2014-09-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top
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#1 Qatar was going to give them the money anyway. This way it is easier and faster, and they don't have to try to hide it.

Posted by Penguin 2014-09-14 01:28|| 2014-09-14 01:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Penguin, I think you are spot on.

Posted by BernardZ 2014-09-14 03:29|| 2014-09-14 03:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Kidnapping has been a fabulous fundraiser for them, as it has been everywhere jihadis operate. And it's a practice that goes way back -- I seem to recall Saladin holding King Richard Lionheart until England was stripped of her wealth for his ransom.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-09-14 08:28|| 2014-09-14 08:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Actually, that was other 'Christian' rulers who copped Richard on his return from the Crusade.

On his way to the territory of his brother-in-law Henry of Saxony, Richard was captured shortly before Christmas 1192 near Vienna by Leopold V, Duke of Austria, who accused Richard of arranging the murder of his cousin Conrad of Montferrat. Moreover Richard had personally offended Leopold by casting down his standard from the walls of Acre.
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On 28 March 1193 Richard was brought to Speyer and handed over to Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor, who imprisoned him in Trifels Castle. Henry VI was aggrieved by the support the Plantagenets had given to the family of Henry the Lion and by Richard's recognition of Tancred in Sicily.[79] Henry VI needed money to raise an army and assert his rights over southern Italy and continued to hold Richard for ransom. In response Pope Celestine III excommunicated Henry VI, as he had Duke Leopold, for the continued wrongful imprisonment of Richard. Richard famously refused to show deference to the emperor and declared to him, "I am born of a rank which recognises no superior but God".[81] Despite his complaints, the conditions of his captivity were not severe.

The emperor demanded that 150,000 marks (65,000 pounds of silver) be delivered to him before he would release the king, the same amount raised by the Saladin tithe only a few years earlier,[82] and 2–3 times the annual income for the English Crown under Richard. Eleanor of Aquitaine worked to raise the ransom. Both clergy and laymen were taxed for a quarter of the value of their property, the gold and silver treasures of the churches were confiscated, and money was raised from the scutage and the carucage taxes. - Wiki

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-09-14 08:40|| 2014-09-14 08:40|| Front Page Top

#5 taxed for a quarter of the value of their property Mamma mia, now that'sa TAXATION!

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-09-14 15:19|| 2014-09-14 15:19|| Front Page Top

#6 I'd quite forgotten that part, Procopius2k. Thank you for the reminder.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-09-14 17:47|| 2014-09-14 17:47|| Front Page Top

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