Susanne Kristina easthope (* 7. March 1962 in Munich) is a German frontasiatic archaeologist and Beraterin in the health service. A larger public became it admits by its kidnapping by Geiselnehmer in the Iraq, who persisted from 25 November to 18 December 2005.

Life

Easthope buildup in Grafing (Upper Bavaria) with two brothers and a younger sister. After the attendance of the High School easthopes at the Ludwig Maximilians university Munich, among other things with the Doyen of the frontasiatic archaeology, studied Barthel Hrouda, which selected it also for numerous excavation campaigns in the Near East. The study locked it in the subjects of frontasiatic archaeology, Semitistik and east EO archaeology. The title of their Magisterarbeit read the mirror in the front Orient.

Into the 1990er years converted it to the Islam and was with the Jordanian Arab Salem Bachan from the trunk of the Schammar, which it became acquainted with married during an archaeological excavation. From the short marriage a daughter followed.

Easthope almost all Arab countries bereist and in many of it worked. She speaks flowing Arab, of it several dialects.

Commitment in the Iraq

Easthope was also during the Gulf War 1991 in the Iraq and among other things medicines and medical instruments for the population supplied as well as archaeological research operated. Already since 1984 it had undertaken several study and excavation journeys among other things into Turkey, to Syria, Jordanian one, into the Iraq and Yemen.

Since 1998 she worked as Beraterin, Organisatorin and Trainerin for the residents of Munich management consultation faktorM. within the range "intercultural management ". She cared for also in the context of the child assistance Iraq (in former times: Direct assistance Iraq) foreign patients in mechanisms of the Bavarian health service and initiated, coordinates and advises projects for the setting up the health service in the Iraq.

For its commitment in the Iraq in the year 2003 received easthope to 25. March 2004 the Tassilo price for civil courage of the South German newspaper.

To 23. May 2003 appeared an article on the title page the New York Time, in which Susanne easthope the destruction of the excavation places of Isin in the Iraq documented. There it had cooperated in several scientific excavation campaigns until 1989. Apart from the health service it engaged itself also for the receipt of a osmanischen Karawanserei from the year 1796 in Mossul (Beit aluminium ). It succeeded to it, but to 18. May 2005 a development aid over 40.000 "€ by the Foreign Office granted too get, whose first rate was already transferred to the Iraqi antique management. The payments meanwhile by the State Department one adjusted, in order easthope to give no more cause to the return to the Iraq.

The Iraq has Susanne easthope after the kidnapping for the first time on 15 February 2006 again bereist.

Kidnapping

Kidnapping

The concrete development over the kidnapping of Susanne easthope cannot not be shown, since during and after the kidnapping there were too many speculations of media and politicians. Stands firmly, which Susanne easthope on 25 November on the way into that approximately 350 kilometers removed Arbil in the north Iraq as well as its driver Chalid Nadschi aluminium Schimani on the early morning by a group named "Saraja aluminium-Salasil" ("storm troops of the earthquakes") imprisoned one took and one kidnapped. The kidnappers gave three days later the pool of broadcasting corporations office in Bagdad video CD. From the pool of broadcasting corporations data concerning contents and a fixed image became publish. In it the two kidnapped ones on the soil and three west dressed sat disguised stood around them. A kidnapper held a Panzerfaust, which according to statement of the secret service expert Udo Ulfkotte atypical for terrorists was. Another kidnapper held a machine gun during third a message read out. The Kidnapper is to have threatened therein with the murder of the hostages, if the German government not immediately breaks co-operation off with the present Iraqi government. This group was assigned to the Sunni "Ischrin brigades" fighting in the underground initially and estimated as Arab nationalists. These groups designate themselves after the rebellion of 1920 against the British colonial power and fight for an end of the crew as well as independence from the foreign country on the basis of an Islamic Iraq.

Motives of the kidnappers

Meanwhile the speculations began over the motives of the authors in Germany. Initially one still proceeded from a politically motivated kidnapping, however the crisis staff wanted to know later of it nothing more and main header the of the kidnapper video out. Federals Minister of the Interior and the deputy director/conductor of the institute for terrorism research in meal, dock deer man, however still heated the speculations up, by stressing in a newspaper that it obviously concerns a politically determined time of the kidnapping, i.e. for the office introduction of the new German government.

Reactions during the kidnapping

While in France and Italy large demonstrations solidarized with the respective victimvictim victims, a reminding guard took place and on 4 December in open brook a demonstration of approximately 100 foreigners of usually Muslim faith only in its last German residence on 2 December in Glonn. Medium comments interpreted this restraint with a mixture made of confidence into the work citizens of Berlin of the crisis staff and a fundamental reserve in relation to the Islam and the Iraqi civil war. On 10 December further reminding guards solidarized at the Brandenburger gate in Berlin, in Munich on Marienplatz and on 11 December in its earlier residence Ebersberg, which found however only a weak support. In the third week of the kidnapping the reminding guards mehrten themselves, among them again with the Brandenburger gate and in Munich.

In two video messages Osthoffs sister Anja and its nut/mother Ingrid Hala appealed to the sympathy of the kidnappers, equally the former Federal Chancellor Gerhard addressed the nut/mother an appeal when desired to the Geiselnehmer to 7 December 2005. The messages were sent by the Arab transmitter Al Jazeera and encountered according to data of minister of foreign affairs stone Meier in the Iraq large resonance. Three old Federals President Johannes Rau, novel duke and Richard of contacted together in a written appeal the kidnappers.

Different political and religious representative Islam and the Iraqi state sat down for the release of easthope and to aluminium-Schimani. Among the most prominent advocates the Iraqi president Dschalal Talabani, the Shiite Prediger Muqtada eating addr were during a prayerprayer prayer in Najaf and in Germany the chairman at that time of the Central Council of the Muslims in Germany (ZMD), Nadeem Elyas, which offered itself even for an exchange against the hostages. The crisis staff stressed beside its informants also the assistance of Kurdish mediators, under it the Kurd leader Massud Barsani, the Sunni clergyman Abd aluminium-Muneim aluminium Badari and the divorced married man of easthopes, Salem Bachan, whose family in north Iraq is likewise considered as influential. The Arab Ambassadors in Berlin condemned the east hoping kidnapping on 11 December in a common explanation.

Release

Easthope on 18 December 2005 one released and was thereafter in Obhut of the German message in Bagdad. Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs according to Steinmeier was an archaeologist in physically good condition. Given over the conditions of the kidnappings for release from official side nothing admits. Also over it that Susanne easthope during the kidnapping allegedly to another group one sold, nothing is well-known. The date of the release of the driver is unknown, while some media reported which it one day later were released, wrote however different days later which it still disappeared.

Speculations

After the releases began the speculations only correctly. Since the German government wrapped itself in silence, each little thing, which oozed from any sources, was largely produced by that media.

Thus for example one speculated,

• that the driver of Susanne easthope something with the kidnapping to do had, what led in many media to Vorverurteilungen. After with the determinations the indications had not been confirmed against the driver, however no correction took place in most media;

• that easthope with the Federal Intelligence Service co-operated. A cause of the speculations was that it had be from time to time in the dwelling of a Federal Intelligence Service official,

• that easthope even something with the kidnapping to do had. Since one had found allegedly after the release money with it, that with the examination had been identical with the allegedly paid ransom. This message turned out in addition, as wrong.

Also a translation error led to a debate across Susanne easthopes. An interview, which had given it in the television station to aluminium-Jazeera, was partially inadvertently wrongly translated. Thus the message turned out in the circulation that Susanne easthope immediately again into the Iraq wanted. This led in Germany to the fact that the reputation of easthope in Germany sank. Many politicians required thereupon consequences in form of an entry prohibition or the attitude of the assistance for the projects of Susanne easthope.

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