Petition for Hostage Release

[BAJR Host]

http://www.petitiononline.com/bajr2000/petition.html

Another day another WSI?

[i_love_rocks]

Mr. Host,
I have taken the liberty to forward the petition link to a German archaeology site, so that colleagues in Germany can also take part.
Shame they didn't think of that themselves...

(the page is http://www.archaeologie-online.de)

[troll]

Guys-petition is a good idea however.....I think the wording may need to be reconsidered. I can see confrontational threads in the wording...not something that may be appropriate when we consider the precarious position the hostages find themselves in????

[minitj]

are you people retarded? i mean really, who is going ot deliver the petition? knock on the terrorists door perhaps? get an official to do it - its not going to happen - the release will be only on condition that germany pulls out of Iraq - which it won't!?

And, what sort of person goes out there with no protection? though i gather she has lived there a while - still foolhardy.

don't sign it because its all about about people wanting to be seen to be 'doing the right thing'

utter rubbish!

my sympathies to the lady's family, but none for her.

[achingknees]

MinitJ, I'm not retarded. I wasn't sure if I was doing the right thing, being seen to be doing the right thing, doing the wrong thing but, futile as it may be, doing SOMETHING.

Are you blonde and named Boris?

[garybrun]

I have signed the document and added it on http://www.minelabowners.com for others to see.
I hope you get more people to sign.

[minitj]

glad to hear you're not retarded - and i appreciate you want to do something but i don't think there is anything us archaeologists can actually do.

Boris? me?! no

[Steve-B]

minitj

I wonder, do you understand the implications of this ladies captivity?

It is perfectly possible that she may end up losing her life, and as foolish as she may well have been (or not) potential death is hardly a fitting sentence..

The petition may well not secure her release, but if there is the slightest possibility that it might then it is a good thing.

[Tim]

The Germans aren't in Iraq, they're just training Iraqi police and military in Germany.

Little Tim

[minitj]

of course i understand the implications you insulting man!

I was in the forces for a numbmer of years so i understand the implications - better than most indeed, having lived through IRA terror campaigns (different i know but some people have zero experience). death is not necessarily a fitting end to a person's foolishness but i still fail to see why i or anyone should sympathise when there are soldiers and civilians (who have little choice in being there) [u]actually</u> being killed.