Kuwaiti firm paid ransom for hostages, did not stop Iraq operations

[Nambe]

KUWAIT CITY (AFP)

he Kuwaiti employers of seven truck drivers freed Wednesday after being held hostage in Iraq said after the group arrived here that they had not ceased operations in Iraq and had paid more than half a million dollars as ransom to the kidnappers.

“We did not cease our operations in Iraq” as demanded by the kidnappers, Kuwait Gulf and Link (KGL) president Saeed Ismail al-Dashti told reporters after receiving the seven drivers at Kuwait airport.

Dashti said the company last paid half a million dollars to the abductors to secure the hostages’ release, but other payments had been made before. ..

KGL had announced August 27 it had decided to stop working in Iraq in response to the kidnappers’ demands.


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[Wickerman]

1. They are loving their freedoms, huh?

Free enterprise, etc.

A bit of a slap in the face that Kuwaitt can't even be relied on to trust the US to straighten out the Terra-ists.

George, your war is officially a cluster fuck.

[LisaM]

2. And the money will probably go straight to purchasing arms.

Great.