If Romania doesn’t make any request, the Americans will send Mohammad Munaf to the Iraqis for him to "take his medicine". Iraqi judicial sources say it is highly probable for Abu Sahar, the leader of the second group that took the Romanian journalists prisoners, to be dead after a military action at Ramadi. Four of Sahar’s terrorists are also trialed in Iraq.

Mohammad Munaf’s sentence to death, which the Iraqi Justice decided, and the fact that the USA Court refused keeping its citizen looks to have decided the future of the person involved in the kidnapping of the Romanian journalists. Munaf will be handed over for him to take his medicine, no matter the sentence. The interesting part appeared in the statements made the other day by the judicial sources in Baghdad that showed an implication of Romania. The Romanian justice is also interested in investigating Munaf for his actions against the Romanian citizens as well as in interrogating him for the Omar Hayssam case. According to the quoted sources, "as far as Mohammad Munaf is concerned, after the request of the Iraqi Government, the American authorities have stated that Mohammad Munaf will be handed over to the Iraqi authorities, no matter their sentence, if Romania doesn’t make any request". We say interesting because the Romanian authorities have repeatedly tried to get Munaf for a trial in Romania. They couldn’t ask for the extradition from the Americans, because the international rules for such a request weren’t met. At least this was the explanation coming from the Romanian Minister of Justice, Monica Macovei.

CONCLUSIONS. If the Americans used the same phrase as the Iraqis, as far as Romania is concerned, we could logically understand several things. One: such a request from the Romanian authorities to the American authorities was normal (the fact that the Romanian prosecutors have sa