Released Terrorist Captive in Possession of Some of the Ransom Money

Susanne Osthoff, the German kidnap victim who was detained in Iraq but later released after the German government paid her kidnappers ransom, was in possession of some of the ransom money after her release.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Part of the ransom money alleged to have been paid by the German government to win the freedom of Iraq hostage Susanne Osthoff last month was found on Osthoff after her release, the German magazine Focus said on Saturday.

Without citing its sources, Focus said officials at the German embassy in Baghdad had found several thousand U.S. dollars in the 43-year-old German archaeologist's clothes when she took a shower at the embassy shortly after being freed.

The serial numbers on the bills matched those used by the government to pay off Osthoff's kidnappers, the magazine said.

This woman collected on some of the ransom money used to buy her freedom. Two days after Osthoff's release, the German government released a Hezbollah terrorist convicted in 1985 for the murder of a US navy diver.

The question begs to be asked. Will Osthoff split the loot with the family of the navy diver?

From Reuters via RightNation.