Osthoff of Arabia: Episode Four
Susanne Osthoff (the German archeologist hostage lady) is unbezahlbar (priceless). Although the German government may not see it quite that way (they obviously paid a fortune for her release). But wait, there’s much more. The plot keeps on thickening and I just can’t get enough. It’s kind of like Lost, only much less realistic. Let me recap what has happened so far...
Episode One: She wants to help victims less fortunate than herself and goes off on a private goodwill mission to help organize, among other things, the construction of a German cultural center (Iraq is apparently in desperate need of more German culture). After having been clearly warned by her government (and others – guess who?) not to do so, she goes anyway and gets her idealistic little self kidnapped.
Episode Two: The German government does not absolutely does not in anyway possible even once ever consider paying a huge ransom to the criminals and/or terrorists to obtain her release much less actually ever get around to actually paying it. They just organized her release because they are REALLY good negotiators or something.
Episode Three: After having been released, she refuses to return home. She was too stressed out to have anything to do with the government that paid her ransom, I mean, negotiated her release. She desperately needed a little rest and relaxation instead and went to a well-known vacation paradise called Jordan.
Episode Four: In her first public appearance (where else but on Al-Dschasira?) she declares to anyone still willing to listen that she will soon be returning to Iraq to continue her work there. Her “kidnappers were not criminals” (thank goodness!) and the “life” she spent with them “was much better than the one lived in many other places I have visited there”.
The German government is unhappy about her comments for some reason.
And episode five? My guess is that she’s going to try and unite some warring Arab tribes and organize an uprising against the oppressive Ottoman Empire during World War I.
Diese Frau ist wirklich unbezahlbar.
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Someone who leaves her daughter behind to enter Iraq despite being warned does not deserve any better..
But if she is going to enter Iraq AGAIN, I would really want to know whether she worked together with her "kidnappers" and cant wait to receive her share! :D (Comment this)