Word: ransoms
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...Bern by Perón's agents to smuggle Nazis out of Germany. Perón's support for Hitler, his contacts with Himmler and his hostility to the Nuremberg trials are documented, as is the shameful behavior of Argentine diplomats who connived in the operation while making ransom demands on Jewish families seeking visas. The logistical role played by KLM, the Dutch airline, is fleshed out. And Allied forces in Europe are shown to have turned a blind eye to what was going...
...messenger," Steiger wrote - and that is what shakes journalists most about the story. Hotspot reporters know the risks, but they're also used to thinking that what they do for a living, namely, tell their stories to millions of people, is more valuable than anything they could bring in ransom...
...assumed a further urgency three days later when reporters and news agencies in Pakistan and the U.S. booted up their computers to find a message from a Hotmail subscriber named "kidnapperguy" who claimed to represent a group called the National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty. The quixotic ransom note accused Pearl of working for the CIA--a charge vehemently denied by the Journal and the CIA--and demanded that the U.S. release the former Taliban ambassador to Pakistan Abdul Salam Zaeef and the Pakistanis it is holding at its base in Cuba's Guantanamo Bay on suspicion...
...insists the military, get paid off to let the rebels go. Father Nacorda says hospital staff saw Brigadier General Romeo Dominguez's aides carrying briefcases full of cash inside the hospital, though they didn't see any change hands between soldiers and rebels. Nacorda believes the army paid a ransom for the hostages, pocketing a cut for themselves. Brigadier General Dominguez, whose integrity is praised inside and out of the military, said the money was on hand to pay for treatment...
...View Danny as a messenger," Steiger wrote - and that is what shakes journalists most about the story. Hotspot reporters know the risks, but they're also used to thinking that what they can offer professionally - a mass audience - will be more valuable that what they can bring in ransom. Or in death...