Let her die! (middle east, Taliban, activist, extremist)

[sailordave]

FOXNews.com - Mystery Shrouds Kidnap of Pro-Jihadist Canadian Activist by Pakistani Extremists - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News

The September 11 terror attacks were a watershed event in the life of a Canadian journalist named Beverly Giesebrecht.
Soon after Al Qaeda terrorists killed 3,000 people in the U.S., Giesebrecht converted to Islam, adopted a new name — Khadija Abdul Qahaar — and spent the next two years studying the Koran in Egypt.
She created a pro-Jihadi Web site, Jihad Unspun, and she developed a network of contacts, contributors and translators, some of whom introduced her to the Taliban in Pakistan.
She wrote of her motivations online:
"I became obsessed with finding out what was really going on. In the early days of my research, I remember sitting at five in the morning, exhausted, after going from link to link to link to link, starring at the face of Osama bin Laden. This man does not have the face of a cold blooded killer. This is not a Charles Manson. There has to be something more.
And then last November, the Taliban, the group she had befriended, kidnapped her while she was chasing a story in the Bannu region of northern Pakistan. In a video released after her capture, Qahaar says she's being held by the Taliban, though it's not clear exactly who is holding her. Officials have not provided clarification, saying only that there are many criminal gangs in the region who call themselves the Taliban.
Now, four and a half months later, 11th-hour negotiations continue in efforts to save Qahaar's life and secure her release. Her captors have demanded $375,000 in ransom money by the end of March, and they have threatened to kill her if their demand isn't met.

[delusianne]

That "final" deadline past yesterday. The $375,000 question -- the amount the Taliban have demanded as ransom -- is whether or not the Taliban have lived up to their threats and killed Beverly Giesbrecht?
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There is one caveat here: what if this is a ruse by Beverly Giesbrecht? She's been openly pro-Taliban on her website for years.

I think that sentiment comes out in Steve Emerson's comments on the matter in this Fox News story:

"I think — and this is just based on logic and rationale — it just doesn't make sense that they would threaten to kill her unless they get money, when she's been such use to them spreading their word in the Western world."

The Jawa Report: Time Up: Did Taliban Murder Pro-Taliban Activist Beverly Giesbrecht?

[camping!]

What is the old saying about making your bed and lying in it?
Or maybe it was the saying about being careful of the company you keep....either way, I shed no tears for her.

Although I do believe this is more then likely a rouse for publicity and money.