Half-baked opinions, served lukewarm.
On this 4th of July, while the flags are waving, I’m going to mull over this question:
Would $86 Billion have cured cancer?
On this 4th of July, while the flags are waving, I’m going to mull over this question:
Would $86 Billion have cured cancer?
A Swede who was kidnapped in Iraq hires bounty hunters to track down and “take care of” his attackers.
A Swede who was kidnapped in Iraq hires bounty hunters to track down and “take care of” his attackers.
Story from here.
Yesterday we noted that Ulf Hjertström, the sexagenarian Swede who survived a 67-day kidnapping ordeal in Baghdad, reportedly was paying professional bounty hunters a handsome fee to track down his erstwhile captors. Expressen, a Swedish tabloid, picked up the story and got in touch with Hjertström to get the lowdown.
Hjertström, an oil broker whose career took him to Iraq 25 years ago, makes no bones about the decision to exact revenge on his abductors. “I’ve lived [in Iraq] for a long time. This is how things are done there. It’s nothing new to me,