(08-05-2016 07:42 AM)BlazerFan11 Wrote:  

(08-05-2016 07:16 AM)Max Power Wrote:  

(08-04-2016 03:39 PM)Dasville Wrote:  Trish Regan just blew the top off this story. She interviewed one of the released hostages. In a nut shell. The hostage said that they sat on the plane, on the tarmac, and could not leave "until the other plane arrives".

Ransom.

But I still don't trust the media source that broke this story.

bull****. The " other plane" carried the Iran hostages. It was always a prisoner swap. My god how desperate is the GOP to have to dig up a SEVEN MONTH old story to distract from their dumpster fire of a candidate?

Says the guy who made a big deal out of decades-old photos of Trump's wife.

daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn! Thats going to leave a mark!

Who cares? DJT will say something ridiculous and outrageous and wipe this off the news cycle even if there was something to it.

(08-05-2016 10:55 AM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  Who cares?

Should be all Americans who travel abroad.

I think I have seen this movie before...

You gotta hand it to the republicans, they are trying everything in the book.

Obama's excuse that there is no banking relationship was insulting to the American people. I'd say it was beneath him but then again he is like a pig in ****. It most certainly is beneath the office of the President but Obama has lowered that bar to a new low.

James Cameron has gone looking for the bar after Obama lowered it...



It was a ransom payment, pure and simple.

You have no banking relationship? Simple enough to establish enough of one to make a transfer. Certainly easier than converting currencies, finding an available unmarked aircraft and flying across the globe.

"Give us an account number Muhammad. Done."

Transfer to some third party country with a relationship with them.

Really is insulting.

I wouldn't be surprised if other countries start kidnapping Americans for some easy ransom money.

Video of the transaction now out. Obammy got cucked, period. I wonder how many terrorist salaries make up $400,000,000.

(08-04-2016 08:58 AM)Paul M Wrote:  Jeez, it matters not if you believe it was their money. My money, your money, Fed dollars or their money, it was paid to secure the release of hostages. A ransom. And it was paid in cash. Secretly. In an unmarked aircraft. In the dead of night. In converted currencies. And Iran uses cash for terrorism, ergo, we just possibly paid for attacks against us. Most definitely against friends.

Max, no one has disputed it was announced in January. A non issue. Has zip to do with the CURRENT news.

No it wasnt. We were going to give them the money anyway.

(08-05-2016 10:55 AM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  Who cares? DJT will say something ridiculous and outrageous and wipe this off the news cycle even if there was something to it.

Yeah who cares that we just gave $400,000,000 to the leading sponsor of terrorism. What difference at this point does it make?

(08-05-2016 05:00 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(08-04-2016 08:58 AM)Paul M Wrote:  Jeez, it matters not if you believe it was their money. My money, your money, Fed dollars or their money, it was paid to secure the release of hostages. A ransom. And it was paid in cash. Secretly. In an unmarked aircraft. In the dead of night. In converted currencies. And Iran uses cash for terrorism, ergo, we just possibly paid for attacks against us. Most definitely against friends.

Max, no one has disputed it was announced in January. A non issue. Has zip to do with the CURRENT news.

No it wasnt. We were going to give them the money anyway.

Trump wouldnt have.

(08-05-2016 05:00 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(08-04-2016 08:58 AM)Paul M Wrote:  Jeez, it matters not if you believe it was their money. My money, your money, Fed dollars or their money, it was paid to secure the release of hostages. A ransom. And it was paid in cash. Secretly. In an unmarked aircraft. In the dead of night. In converted currencies. And Iran uses cash for terrorism, ergo, we just possibly paid for attacks against us. Most definitely against friends.

Max, no one has disputed it was announced in January. A non issue. Has zip to do with the CURRENT news.

No it wasnt. We were going to give them the money anyway.

Possibly, eventually. There was absolutely zero reason to at the time except for payment of the ransom the Iranians were demanding.

(08-05-2016 05:03 PM)Hood-rich Wrote:  

(08-05-2016 05:00 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(08-04-2016 08:58 AM)Paul M Wrote:  Jeez, it matters not if you believe it was their money. My money, your money, Fed dollars or their money, it was paid to secure the release of hostages. A ransom. And it was paid in cash. Secretly. In an unmarked aircraft. In the dead of night. In converted currencies. And Iran uses cash for terrorism, ergo, we just possibly paid for attacks against us. Most definitely against friends.

Max, no one has disputed it was announced in January. A non issue. Has zip to do with the CURRENT news.

No it wasnt. We were going to give them the money anyway.

Trump wouldnt have.

Yeah because Trump would have lost his temper and dropped a nuke and start WWIII.

DOJ admits to prisoners for money exchange today.


DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I SAY.

(08-05-2016 05:11 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(08-05-2016 05:03 PM)Hood-rich Wrote:  

(08-05-2016 05:00 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(08-04-2016 08:58 AM)Paul M Wrote:  Jeez, it matters not if you believe it was their money. My money, your money, Fed dollars or their money, it was paid to secure the release of hostages. A ransom. And it was paid in cash. Secretly. In an unmarked aircraft. In the dead of night. In converted currencies. And Iran uses cash for terrorism, ergo, we just possibly paid for attacks against us. Most definitely against friends.

Max, no one has disputed it was announced in January. A non issue. Has zip to do with the CURRENT news.

No it wasnt. We were going to give them the money anyway.

Trump wouldnt have.

Yeah because Trump would have lost his temper and dropped a nuke and start WWIII.

Don't be such a hysterical old woman. LOL

If anything Iran deserves it. There's nothing good coming from that country.

The timing was incidental. It was their money, and it was expected that if we didn't settle and return the $400M the Hague was going to issue a judgment against us for a much larger amount.

The agreement was the return of the $400 million, plus an additional $1.3 billion in interest, terms that Obama described as favorable compared to what might have been expected from a tribunal set up in The Hague to rule on pending deals between the two countries. U.S. officials have said they expected an imminent ruling on the claim and settled with Tehran instead.

(08-18-2016 04:20 PM)Max Power Wrote:  The timing was incidental. It was their money, and it was expected that if we didn't settle and return the $400M the Hague was going to issue a judgment against us for a much larger amount.

The agreement was the return of the $400 million, plus an additional $1.3 billion in interest, terms that Obama described as favorable compared to what might have been expected from a tribunal set up in The Hague to rule on pending deals between the two countries. U.S. officials have said they expected an imminent ruling on the claim and settled with Tehran instead.

Is there NO load of utter Horseschit that you won't just gleefully gobble up if it comes from the right left wing "source"? Pallets of Swiss Francs and Euros... On a plane. In the middle of the night. hahahahaha

While the hostages sit on the tarmac until the plane is down and cash confirmed. Incidental. lol

Why not just wire it to Switzerland or some other Country that has "financial relations" with the terrorist sponsors, and have them deliver the ransom?

Do you also approve of the 250 Brazilian Real being flown in now to spring Lochte and his swim buddies?!?

gobble gobble gobble...

(08-18-2016 04:17 PM)olliebaba Wrote:  

(08-05-2016 05:11 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(08-05-2016 05:03 PM)Hood-rich Wrote:  

(08-05-2016 05:00 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(08-04-2016 08:58 AM)Paul M Wrote:  Jeez, it matters not if you believe it was their money. My money, your money, Fed dollars or their money, it was paid to secure the release of hostages. A ransom. And it was paid in cash. Secretly. In an unmarked aircraft. In the dead of night. In converted currencies. And Iran uses cash for terrorism, ergo, we just possibly paid for attacks against us. Most definitely against friends.

Max, no one has disputed it was announced in January. A non issue. Has zip to do with the CURRENT news.

No it wasnt. We were going to give them the money anyway.

Trump wouldnt have.

Yeah because Trump would have lost his temper and dropped a nuke and start WWIII.

Don't be such a hysterical old woman. LOL

If anything Iran deserves it. There's nothing good coming from that country.

Iran is a counter balance to Saudi Arabis in the region. Take away Iran and you essentially give SA control of the entire middle east.

Iran may not like us but they hate SA more.

If this isnt considered a ransom... I dont know what is.

US SAYS $400M TO IRAN WAS CONTINGENT ON RELEASE OF PRISONERS

Quote:WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration said Thursday that a $400 million cash payment to Iran seven months ago was contingent on the release of a group of American prisoners.

It is the first time the U.S. has so clearly linked the two events, which critics have painted as a hostage-ransom arrangement.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/U...8-17-17-43