Re: It supports the speculation that the killers were not Muslims even though they masqueraded as such.
Maybe you're right... But then, let's not forget that, prior to the US invasion, Iraq was a modern country of 25 million people, that is, a country with all the trappings of modern life --with its city merchants, its unemployed... and its mobsters. Part of the US strategy to blur the Iraqi situation was the unlocking of Iraqi prisons whose convicts are now used as informants by the US military. For that matter, we've all heard about Abu Ghraib, a penitentiary turned into an "interrogation" centre by the US --but what happened to Abu Ghraib's former inmates? Iraq's common law criminals and convicts are probably the only ones who truly can view the US as their "liberators"...
So, my point is that it's quite possible that the hapless Nepalese --and possibly the Italian journalist too-- were kidnapped by Iraqi criminals merely for money... BTW, what's the current unemployment rate in Iraq again? It's a situation similar to that of Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina,... the kidnapping business. Of course, that's not the way the US occupier wants to spin it because that would put the blame squarely on the US mismanagement of the country --better to brand the kidnappings as gruesome terrorist activities by Islamic fanatics. And that's where former Iraqi inmates turned finks are useful: they help make up the kidnappings into Islamic kidnappings... However, the "Islamic" kidnappers' bottom line remains... the bottom line! If nobody's willing to pay for the Nepalese, the Italian, whoever, then they just waste their "worthless booty".
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