has been freed by her terrorist captors and returned to Poland. Teresa Borcz-Kalifa was taken hostage on
. The group had demanded the withdrawal of Polish troops from Iraq and the release of all female prisoners by the Coalition. Al Jazeera claimed that the terrorists made no death threat agains Mrs. Khalifa.
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Oh thank God! Did they say why they released her? I don't understand how they could murder someone who was there for 30 yrs. taking care of their people,and let Teresa go? Not that I'm not glad, mind you,just trying to understand it all.
Posted by: Laura at November 20, 2004 06:46 PM (ptOpl)
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Laura, here is my take (being reproduced from the comments of my own blog with explicit permission from myself):
"I have a feeling this woman was released because of the reaction to the murder of HASSAN - Iraqis did not like that. The terrorists were holding these two to try and demand a release of 2 iraqi women prisoners the coalition are holding - Dr. Germ & Mrs. Anthrax. So they came to the conclusion nothing they would do would get them released. They killed Hassan, received a very negative reaction from Iraqis and decided they were not going to get a swap at all, so they wanted to unload the "Polish" woman. They would have killed her had in not been for the uproar in Iraq over the murder of Hassan. That uproar saved the Polish woman's life."
That is certainly not definitive, but I'm guessing it is close.
Posted by: Editor at November 20, 2004 09:07 PM (uurD1)
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Since when do these heartless bastards give a shit about what the Iraqi's think? After all, didn't they slaughter Iraqi soldiers, officers, civilians, etc.?
Posted by: Laura at November 21, 2004 01:31 PM (ptOpl)
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Laura,
If they didn't care about how the Iraqis felt why are they carrying out terrorist attacks? They are precisely intended to sway Iraqi public sentiment whether by fear or by sympathy(from Ba'ath sympathizers) (fear, of course, is the objective - fear from going to the polls in January). They have a clear desire to persuade the Iraqi public from desiring Democracy. One of their plans is to carry out all these attacks, hoping many will come to the false conclusion of, "If this is democracy, I don't want it." They clearly care what Iraqis feel and think.
Posted by: Editor at November 21, 2004 02:57 PM (uurD1)
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My guess is that they don't give a monkeys about Iraqi sentiment.
The group holding Hassan were apparently a criminal organisation. I am not sure if they were the same people holding Teresa Borcz Khalifa.
Personally, I suspect there was some kind of ransom involved and one government decided to pay it.
Posted by: Red Devil at November 21, 2004 05:38 PM (+vlk+)
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Exactly. These heartless bastards don't care about ANYthing.
Posted by: Laura at November 22, 2004 09:00 AM (ptOpl)
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I think she was set free because she lived there for 30 years and she new how to act and what to say so she was freed! THANK GOD!!
MUD(S.W.A.T)
Posted by: Mischa at November 30, 2004 11:54 PM (U7SE2)
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