Foreign Policy Magazine has published an important contribution to the debate on negotiations with terrorists who hold US nationals. Unfortunately it is behind a pay wall, but as of right now it is accessible through google. Try googling foreign policy magazine no ones in charge in hostage negotiations. Heres a teaser: ...But the Obama administrations absolutist position is at odds with what has actually happened when Americans have been kidnapped abroad in the past. The U.S. government has, in fact, arranged ransom payments for Americans held by foreign terrorist groups. Officials are also aware of ransom being paid recently for an American journalist held in Syria. And its been the United States long-standing policy to keep lines of communications open with terrorists who hold Americans and to find ways of negotiating for their freedom. Under certain circumstances, that can include paying terrorist groups and using money to lure them into the open, where they might be tracked, captured, or killed.
Posted on: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 01:31:59 +0000
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