The diplomat\u2019s daughter was tied to a chair in the basement of a house in Oud-Zuid<\/p>\n
He blindfold was removed and a mobile phone was thrust into her face<\/p>\n
Explain our terms to your father fair one <\/i><\/p>\n
The girl spoke in Spanish but did not betray distress<\/p>\n
What did you say? <\/i><\/p>\n
I asked him if my cat was okay <\/i><\/p>\n
The kidnapper slapped the girl’s face drawing blood from her nose<\/p>\n
Tell him we will kill you unless our demands are met <\/i><\/p>\n
The girl then spoke to her father in English<\/p>\n
What was his answer did he agree to our terms? <\/i><\/p>\n
No <\/i><\/p>\n
Does he want us to kill you now? <\/i><\/p>\n
There was no answer <\/i><\/p>\n
He gave you no answer<\/em><\/p>\n The girl looked at her captors and smiled<\/p>\n The taller of the two men took a knife from his belt<\/p>\n If he does not agree I will cut your throat <\/i><\/p>\n The girl giggled<\/p>\n He did say something <\/i><\/p>\n What was that? <\/i><\/p>\n He said to me just one thing <\/i><\/p>\n Do not play games little girl \u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n He told me that Cortez is Coming<\/i><\/p>\n Repeat yourself <\/i><\/p>\n He told me that Cortez is Coming<\/i><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Burt Lancaster <\/b><\/p>\n My flight landed at Schiphol on time and I was met by two Mossad agents<\/p>\n They drove me to a caf\u00e9 in Oud-Zuid and we watched Willem II beat FC Twente by three clear goals<\/p>\n As we left I given a brown leather shoulder bag<\/p>\n It contained two loaded Glock pistols<\/p>\n I walked to the house which was about fifteen munutes from the cafe<\/p>\n Both the kidnappers were enjoying coffee when I arrived<\/p>\n I let them finish their refreshment before I shot them both dead<\/p>\n As I am a humane man<\/p>\n The girl cried for a while and later stole money from her captors wallets<\/p>\n We spent the rest of the afternoon together in Central Amsterdam<\/p>\n And attended a Burt Lancaster retrospective at the Filmtheater Kriterion<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The diplomat\u2019s daughter was tied to a chair in the basement of a house in Oud-Zuid He blindfold was removed and a mobile phone was thrust into her face Explain our terms to your father fair one The girl spoke in Spanish but did not betray distress What did you say? I asked him if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}