Italy: Now what?

[Skybird]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061018...p_061018012342

Ignoring the absurdity of queer thinking in these kidnapper's motivations, these are the options:

1. The Afghan in question returns voluntarily and knowing what awaits him.

2. Italy refuses to extradite him, and the hostage will get murdered.

3. Italy negotiates successfully and pays money for the release of the hostage without extraditing the Afghan.

4. Italy complies, extradites the Afghan, and get the hostage.

5. Commandos raid the location where the hostage is being held prisoner.


Consequences:

1. Would be a noble act, but the wrong signal, assisting Conservatives claims that the rule of Islamic laws cannot be escaped, no matter where.

2. Possible outcome, and obviously a tragedy for the hostage and his family. But it tells the world a message that Italian policies refuse to obey Islamic laws - which might be more important, as harsh as it is.

3. The most likely outcome, maybe. If successfully conducted it would illustrate how corrupt such conservatives are and how hollow their holy rules are - it would also give evidence that the state of Italy can be blackmailed.

4. Wrong message from A to Z. Completely unacceptable.

5. Best option, but obviously it has a lot of necessary prerequisites that are extremely unlikely to be fulfilled. IF they are fulfilled, this would be the way to go.

If the hostage gets killed and the place where he was held prison can be identified, the according village or the closest village to that location should be flattened completely - to give a message why it is a bad idea to take Westerners as hostages. the simple message is: hit us, and we hit you harder. It is unlikely that the residents in the close area of that location would not have helped and accepted what was going on anyway. To ignore the death of the hostage and simply continue with business as usual is not an option.

[CB..]

a lousy situation ...made even more appalling by the fact that Afghanistan was invaded in order to prevent such acts...on a wider scope the statement

Earlier this year Italy granted political asylum to 41-year-old Afghan Abdul Rahman, who faced possible execution under Islamic Sharia law in Afghanistan for converting to Christianity

should perhaps be constantly placed on the front page of very western newspaper every day untill the situation is resolved..as a reminder of just exactly what being bombed back to the stone age actualy means..and how religion can do this as effectively as any military force

[The Avon Lady]

A 3 and 5 combo, with the hope that 5 has a chance of saving the hostage's life.

This should be elementary but it's not.

BTW, speaking of Italy........................

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by The Avon Lady

BTW, speaking of Italy........................

You should have crushed Hezbollah at all costs as long as you had the chance. Now it's gone. In the future you will pay the price for that failure.

[The Avon Lady]

Originally Posted by Skybird

You should have crushed Hezbollah at all costs as long as you had the chance. Now it's gone. In the future you will pay the price for that failure.

I tried but they just laughed at me and my rolling pin.

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by The Avon Lady

I tried but they just laughed at me and my rolling pin.

A real woman would have used that rolling pin and all men would have coward! :p

PS. Just kidding!

[tycho102]

Originally Posted by The Avon Lady

I tried but they just laughed at me and my rolling pin.

Then you should have popped them with the wooden spoon, right across the kisser.


And if that doesn't do it, then you pull out the Equalizer.



You have never seen a room cleaned so fast as when you're carrying the Equalizer, and they know you're prepared to use it.
(all of this is a metaphor for Lebanon, and certainly this kidnapping issue, as well)

[fredbass]

What is the equalizer? A cow prod? If so, I've been on the tail end of it a few times.

[ASWnut101]

it looks like a tazer-baton

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by ASWnut101

it looks like a tazer-baton

Careful with those Tazers. Death rate from them is higher than I thought!!! I figured someone might have cardiac arrest in 1 in 100,000, but latest statistics show that it is much much worse at 1 in 870! Matter of fact, I don't really recomend having any cocaine in the body since it seems that when cocaine is present, it doubles the voltage from the Tazer!!! This was all over Google news last week.

-S

[ASWnut101]

then it can act as like a secondary punsishment. one for what ever, and the other for doing crak!