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I'd be worried about the sieve like nature of the phillo intel services

Well, I suppose the Bush Administration is going to write the Phillipines up on the marker board as a member of the 'Axis of EEEEEvil' for giving the hostagetakers six million bux. :smack:

Six million bux sounds like a good idea...and there's some South Asians working in my office. Maybe I'll take someone hostage, barricade myself in my high walled (3 feet high that is) cubicle and threaten to staple ties and fingers and put tape in hair and smear whiteout on glasses until my demands are met: a FRESH box of Krispy Kreme donuts and $6 million! Bwahaha! :rar:

if you can hold off a swat team with a stapler I'll give you 6m.

Belmont Club tracks what happened to the now-confirmed ransom payment.

Quote:

The two vital points confirmed by the AP report were that the Malaysians were involved and that a ransom was offered. That quarter of a million dollars, paid to the Khalid Ibn al-Walid brigade (who held the Filipino hostage) is coincidentally almost exactly the amount being offered by Zarqawi for the head of Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi. According to Reuters:

A group led by suspected al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi offered a reward of $282,000 on Sunday for the killing of Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, according to a statement posted on an Islamist Web site. "We in Khalid bin al-Walid Brigade announce to the Iraqi people a reward of 200,000 Jordanian dinars ($282,000) to whoever gets us Allawi's head," said a group statement posted on the site.

Is that an intentional coinsidence? I thought these brigades were well funded anyway. :confused: