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Roxana Saberi Released

 Roxana Saberi, the American repoter kidnapped by the  moo-las of Iran, has been released, Wall Street Journal: [1]

TEHRAN — Roxana Saberi, a 32-year-old Iranian-American journalist detained here for more than three months, was freed on Monday after an appeals court suspended her eight-year sentence on espionage charges.

The court upheld the spying charges against Ms. Saberi, but reduced the sentence to a two-year suspended prison term, according to her lawyer

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she was “heartened” by Ms. Saberi’s release but that the U.S. continued “to take issue with the charges against her and the verdicts rendered

Nice to see that Saberi has been freed, but kidnappers only release their victims after they recieve their ransom.    Is Mrs.  Clinton really so dumb as to believe that Iran simply released Saberi out of goodness of their hearts, or the result of some Obamatard smart diplomacy?    Can we see a show of hands?