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Kidnapping Mistakes
By Micah Halpern

Wednesday January 19,2005

I've Been Thinking:

The release of Iraqi Catholic Archbishop Georges Casmousa was no accident.

Official comments suggesting that the terrorists mistook Casmoussa for someone else are just spin, actually, they are pure BALONEY!

When the Archbishop of Mousal was kidnapped and thrown into the trunk of a car the terrorists knew exactly what they were doing.
But international and local pressure was too great for them to handle so they claimed mistaken identity and gave him up even without making a demand.
The captors miscalculated.
Then everyone said "oops."

Local Catholics and other religious leaders are personally petrified about what might happen to them. So, of course, they are going to agree that it was a case of mistaken identity. The terrorists made a public relations blunder so great that even the extreme Sunni and Shiites who are virulently anti-Catholic were repulsed when an Archbishop was kidnapped. They would have taken less heat had they just blown him up with a car bomb.

There are lessons to be learned:
* The people making operational decisions for the terrorists are not always aware of their ramifications.
* What is said after the fact is not necessarily what really happened.
* No one is safe, regardless of the position they hold, because the terrorists are less predictable than we think.

4 June 2017 12:14 PM in Thoughts


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