dad to kidnappers "Just kill him"

[Amby 490]

By the third day of negotiating with his son’s kidnappers, Rasul Amoore had sold his car, withdrawn his bank savings and borrowed money from his siblings and friends to raise funds for the 6-year-old’s release.

Even then he was able to gather only $8,000 of the $50,000 demanded by Ahmed’s captors. The kidnappers eventually dropped their ransom to $20,000 — still more than twice the amount at the disposal of Amoore — after the confectionery shop owner in east Baghdad pleaded that their information about his supposed wealth was untrue.

Amoore, angered and mentally tormented by the kidnappers, decided to gamble with his son’s life.

"Just kill him," said the father of four during a heated telephone negotiation with the lead captor. "Just kill him and I’ll consider that I’ve given his soul as a gift to God."

Four hours later the kidnappers released Ahmed unharmed, but only after receiving $10,000.

Kidnapping has overtaken burglaries, robberies, car theft and other crimes to become the biggest criminal activity in many areas of Baghdad. Insurgents and gangsters are increasingly using abducted children to raise funds for terrorism operations and personal wealth.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,561443...test=latestnews

[almaty 19]

wow, very sad......mission accomplished, indeed

[Joseph & Ana 0]

wow, very sad......mission accomplished, indeed

Still can't get over your BDS can you?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

wow, very sad......mission accomplished, indeed

Still can't get over your BDS can you?

Still can't get over the fact that not many people share your hard-on for Bush.

[ScottThuy 140]

Kinda reminds me of that Mel Gibson movie Ransom... "Gimme back my son!" and then it went to... OK so I'm not gonna pay you, and I am putting a bounty on your head for a few Million bucks... thats a big set of balls!

I wonder what 10k would have got him in Iraq similar to the bounty such that Mel posted in the movie.... Hell even 5k for that matter... I'd bet that 5k would be incentive enough for his coconspirators to flip on him...

[Empress of Groovy 373]

wow, very sad......mission accomplished, indeed

Still can't get over your BDS can you?

Still can't get over the fact that not many people share your hard-on for Bush.

...who has trademarked the phrase, apparently.

[almaty 19]

bush was a dumbazz and put this country in peril and into 2 endless wars...

[Joseph & Ana 0]

wow, very sad......mission accomplished, indeed

Still can't get over your BDS can you?

Still can't get over the fact that not many people share your hard-on for Bush.

Still not sure how the article has anything to do with Bush. But with you people, everything has everything to do with Bush. Hence your BDS. I don't have a hard-on for Bush. Not a republican. My comments are less about Bush and Republicans as they are to illustrate your absurdity.

[almaty 19]

lol..and you do it soooooooo well, just like W would do ..we are all so impressed

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

wow, very sad......mission accomplished, indeed

Still can't get over your BDS can you?

Still can't get over the fact that not many people share your hard-on for Bush.

Still not sure how the article has anything to do with Bush. But with you people, everything has everything to do with Bush. Hence your BDS. I don't have a hard-on for Bush. Not a republican. My comments are less about Bush and Republicans as they are to illustrate your absurdity.

This is yet another example of how you let your partisan hysteria guide your response.

Who said that the article was about Bush? I don't believe Almaty did. Neither did I for that matter.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

bush was a dumbazz and put this country in peril and into 2 endless wars...

I tend to agree. Perhaps we should just elect leaders for life. Then when they start to suck, we put them up against the wall, and shoot them. It used to to work south of the border...

[Joseph & Ana 0]

wow, very sad......mission accomplished, indeed

Still can't get over your BDS can you?

Still can't get over the fact that not many people share your hard-on for Bush.

Still not sure how the article has anything to do with Bush. But with you people, everything has everything to do with Bush. Hence your BDS. I don't have a hard-on for Bush. Not a republican. My comments are less about Bush and Republicans as they are to illustrate your absurdity.

This is yet another example of how you let your partisan hysteria guide your response.

Who said that the article was about Bush? I don't believe Almaty did. Neither did I for that matter.

And you expect anyone to believe that BS? His comment was clearly a reference to the Mission Accomplished sign that Bush didn't put on the ship.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

wow, very sad......mission accomplished, indeed

Still can't get over your BDS can you?

Still can't get over the fact that not many people share your hard-on for Bush.

Still not sure how the article has anything to do with Bush. But with you people, everything has everything to do with Bush. Hence your BDS. I don't have a hard-on for Bush. Not a republican. My comments are less about Bush and Republicans as they are to illustrate your absurdity.

This is yet another example of how you let your partisan hysteria guide your response.

Who said that the article was about Bush? I don't believe Almaty did. Neither did I for that matter.

And you expect anyone to believe that BS? His comment was clearly a reference to the Mission Accomplished sign that Bush didn't put on the ship.

You're drawing a hell of a lot from a one-liner there, Joe.

Seems to me that it was simply a comment that referred to the current State of Iraq post-war.

[Empress of Groovy 373]

wow, very sad......mission accomplished, indeed

Still can't get over your BDS can you?

Still can't get over the fact that not many people share your hard-on for Bush.

Still not sure how the article has anything to do with Bush. But with you people, everything has everything to do with Bush. Hence your BDS. I don't have a hard-on for Bush. Not a republican. My comments are less about Bush and Republicans as they are to illustrate your absurdity.

This is yet another example of how you let your partisan hysteria guide your response.

Who said that the article was about Bush? I don't believe Almaty did. Neither did I for that matter.

And you expect anyone to believe that BS? His comment was clearly a reference to the Mission Accomplished sign that Bush didn't put on the ship.

I think you're the only person who read it that way. It's a common phrase, believe it or not.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

And strangely, now the thread has become about Bush.

How did that happen, I wonder....

Joe?