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Wood's fellow hostage hires bounty hunters
June 26, 2005 - 7:18PM
A hostage held alongside Australian Douglas Wood in Iraq has hired bounty hunters to track down his former captors, promising to eliminate them one by one.
Swede Ulf Hjertstrom, who was held for several weeks with Mr Wood in Baghdad, was released by his kidnappers on May 30.
Mr Hjertstrom has since claimed he shared information with US and Iraqi troops about Mr Wood which led to the release of the 63-year-old Australian engineers two weeks ago, after 47 days in captivity.
Now, he wants to find those responsible.
"I have now put some people to work to find these bastards," he told the Ten Network today.
"I invested about $50,000 so far and we will get them one by one."
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REF:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/woo...724523143.html
This story caught me by surprise.
What do you think of hiring bounty hunters to "find" your ex-captors and, presumably, deal with them?
I'll be honest and say that part of me thinks that this is understandable, but another believes such an action is both illegal and rash in the estreme.
Mr Mephisto