January 28, 2006
EASY MARKS:
Germans cash cows for Iraqi kidnappers? (STEFAN NICOLA, 1/25/06, UPI)
Germans in Iraq may be targeted as cash cows after two men from Leipzig were kidnapped in the Sunni triangle, the second abduction of Germans in just a few weeks.Posted by Orrin Judd at January 28, 2006 9:07 AM"It looks like Germany is seen as a country that pays," Karl-Heinz Kamp, security expert at the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftug, a think tank with close ties to Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives, told United Press International in a telephone interview Wednesday. "The latest kidnapping has been professionally executed. I don't think there is an extremist background. The abductors likely asked themselves: Where can we make some fast money?"
Dane-geld
The end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that pays it is lost.
Germany: "'Ransom'...? Who do you think we are?
Mein Jihadists: "We've already established who you are--now we're just haggling about price."
Posted by: Noel at January 28, 2006 12:50 PMEasy Euros?
Posted by: ghostcat at January 28, 2006 1:33 PMLou:
I like this couplet from the same poem (being half Danish myself):
"That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane."
fred: how long has your family been in s.f. (from denmark) ?
funny, i always heard the price for a german was a loaf of bread...
. . . or a pair of nylons!
Posted by: obc at January 28, 2006 8:01 PMThis confirms OJ's genius for thinking up good headers for his posts.
Posted by: Tom at January 29, 2006 9:18 AM