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Ex-hostage hires bounty hunters

 
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Tanya
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 11:54 pm    Post subject: Ex-hostage hires bounty hunters Reply with quote
http://theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15737209^1702,00.html

"A HOSTAGE held alongside Australian Douglas Wood in Iraq has hired bounty hunters to track down his former captors, promising to eliminate them one by one.

Swede Ulf Hjertstrom, who was held for several weeks with Mr Wood in Baghdad, was released by his kidnappers on May 30.

Mr Hjertstrom has since claimed he shared information with US and Iraqi troops about Mr Wood which led to the release of the 63-year-old Australian engineers two weeks ago, after 47 days in captivity.

Now, he wants to find those responsible.

"I have now put some people to work to find these bastards,"

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 5:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 5:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Great story!
the terrorists in this group not only got played in a 'sting' by the Aussies in the Wood rescue, now they have a bounty on their head courtesy of Mr Hjertstrom!


re the Wood "sting"
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The Age Melbourne (subscription) via FReeRep
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The response team faced two problems: how to get Mr Wood out safely without paying his abductors and how to maintain faith with the sheikh, who had used his status as a leading Australian Muslim cleric to convinced the intermediaries that the money would be paid after Mr Wood was released, not before. The sheikh was honour-bound to pay the money and the Islamic community in Australia had also raised money as a precaution if the Wood family was unable to come up with the full amount. The sheikh could not be seen to renege on the deal.

The Sunday Age is unclear about precisely what happened next, but it is known that the sheikh helped negotiate a new changeover date - June 15 - and a drop-off location, Baghdad's Babylon Hotel. It is more than likely that his calls to the intermediaries and the calls from the intermediaries to the gang were bugged, allowing the response team to pinpoint Mr Wood's whereabouts.

The Sunday Age believes that it was decided to go in early and snatch Mr Wood before the arranged changeover. To be successful, the operation could not be carried out by Australians and it had to appear, as John Howard put it, to be a miracle, a chance discovery by Iraqi forces.

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