Why terrorists don't kidnap Russians (any more)

[Webb]

From 1986, KGB Reportedly Gave Arab Terrorists a Taste of Brutality to Free Diplomats

JERUSALEM — The KGB has adopted novel, brutal and apparently effective methods of dealing with terrorists who attack Soviet interests in the Middle East, an Israeli newspaper reported Monday.

The Jerusalem Post said the Soviet secret police last year secured the release of three kidnaped Soviet diplomats in Beirut by castrating a relative of a radical Lebanese Shia Muslim leader, sending him the severed organs and then shooting the relative in the head.

The incident began when four Soviet diplomats were kidnaped last September by Muslim extremists who demanded that Moscow pressure the Syrian government to stop pro-Syrian militiamen from shelling rival Muslim positions in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli.

The militiamen, the Jerusalem paper said, did not cease their attacks, and the body of one of the Soviet diplomats, Arkady Katkov, was found a few days later in a field in Beirut.

The KGB then apparently kidnaped and killed a relative of an unnamed leader of the Shias' Hezbollah (Party of God) group, a radical, pro-Iranian group that has been suspected of various terrorist activities against Western targets in Lebanon.

Parts of the man's body, the paper said, were then sent to the Hezbollah leader with a warning that he would lose other relatives in a similar fashion if the three remaining Soviet diplomats were not immediately released. They were quickly freed.

The newspaper quoted "observers in Jerusalem" as saying: "This is the way the Soviets operate. They do things--they don't talk. And this is the language Hezbollah understands."

Six Americans, missing for up to two years, are presumed to be kidnaping victims in Lebanon.

[Hawkeye07]

But we're the "Good Guys" who are sworn to always play by the rules and if we don't then some dumb--s will start whining about it.

I think it's time to start playing by the rules of the guys who started the game. And I don't give a cr-p what John McCain says about torture being not nice. But don't bother trying to get intel out of them just use it to let the bad guys know we're playing hardball just like the Russians. Oh, and if anyone hasn't noticed yet the bad guys are already playing hardball.

Hawkeye

[papituwall]

I think it's time to start playing by the rules of the guys who started the game.

YES! YES! YES!

[Webb]

They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue.



America once had leaders with balls. We won a couple of wars with that strategy.

[ozzy72]

Jim,

A couple of things, the KGB doesn't exist anymore, and this actually happened back in the late 70s/early 80s in Beirut if I remember correctly

[Fozzer]

Steady lads.....
...good subject tho'... ...!


..we have a term for it....

...its called...

...."Pussyfooting" about... ...!

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.p ... ssyfooting

Paul.

[Hagar]

Jim,

A couple of things, the KGB doesn't exist anymore, and this actually happened back in the late 70s/early 80s in Beirut if I remember correctly

You're quite right Mark. !986 to be precise. http://articles.latimes.com/1986-01-07/news/mn-13892_1_soviets

Treat everything you read on the Internet with a very large pinch of salt.

[Fozzer]

This is what I mean by "Pussyfooting about"...>>>

"Anti Social Behaviour Orders".... ....>>>>

http://web.orange.co.uk/article/news/as ... _jihadists

A pat on the wrist...and a promise not to do it again...

Paul......!

[Bass]

Short said:
The russians (Putin) dont care anymore

[pete]

I'm sure most people with desirable qualifications - which is often difficult to compete given the very high levels of Russian education - are quite welcome to live there.

However

1. Russians ARE kidnapped just like everyone else http://en.ria.ru/russia/20140822/192240 ... reign.html

2. What they said above (not exactly 'news' )

3. We discourage serious political threads here because they usually get out of hand and a nasty fire can start