Posted on 06/24/2015 7:01:17 PM PDT by markomalley
This will, of course, encourage more hostage-taking. At a time when European governments have funneled tens of millions of dollars in ransoms to jihad groups, essentially financing their operations, that is hardly wise.
“White House says more than 30 Americans held hostage abroad,” by Jeremy Diamond and Sunlen Serfaty, CNN, June 24, 2015:
Washington (CNN)The U.S. government will now communicate with terrorist groups holding the more than 30 Americans currently hostage abroad, one of a slew of changes to the nation’s hostage policy that President Barack Obama announced Wednesday.
The U.S. government will stick to its “no concessions” policy — often incorrectly interpreted as “no negotiations” — while also allowing government officials going forward to talk with terrorist groups like ISIS that have kidnapped Americans, according to a presidential policy directive Obama outlined on Wednesday.
More than 30 Americans are currently held hostage abroad, Obama’s chief counterterrorism adviser Lisa Monaco, who oversaw the policy review, told reporters on Wednesday.
The tally includes those who are held hostage by terrorist groups as well as criminal gangs and cartels, according to a senior official, who said the government couldn’t provide a further breakdown for safety reasons.
(Excerpt) Read more at jihadwatch.org ...
Will they also publish a term sheet, laying out the amounts we will pay for each category of American citizen taken?
A tourist will get you this much, an ambassador will get you that much, a student will get you this amount, etc.
Whadda they mean “now”? He’s been speaking with them his whole life!
He talks to ValJar who is holding the country hostage.
Conquered by the Sword: The Muslim Brotherhood’s Deadly Grasp on Power
The causes of corporatism and unrestricted immigration have their greatest ally in the Muslim Brotherhood. This fascist-terrorist organization is the parent of virtually all of today’s Islamic terrorist groups, and it wields the most influence in the Obama administration.
Helping the Muslim Brotherhood along the way at each step is billionaire investor (and former Nazi collaborator) George Soros. His multi-headed hydra of “Progressive” organizations practically sets the Obama administration’s priorities.
Below are just some examples of the overlap among the Muslim Brotherhood, George Soros, the administration, the Clintons, and the immigration advocates at the Chamber of Commerce.
•Soros has donated $10 million to the Center for American Progress (CAP is one of his many front groups). CAP is a leading voice in combating alleged “Islamophobia,” an idea pushed by the Muslim Brotherhood-founded Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to silence all critics of Islamic terrorism.
•CAP was previously led by John Podesta, who was Chief of Staff for President Bill Clinton and is currently Counselor to President Obama.
•The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has a headquarters in Doha, Qatar. Doha, capital of the small Gulf nation, is home to the Muslim Brotherhood’s spiritual leader Yusuf al Qaradawi, an international fugitive (Interpol) and anti-Semite. Qatar, a Muslim Brotherhood state, has been referred to as an “ATM for terrorists.”
•Like the Chamber of Commerce, many Muslim Brotherhood front groups in the United States favor amnesty and vastly increased immigration. The Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) openly supports “comprehensive immigration reform.”
•George Soros is funding legal efforts to fight laws that require voters to present photo identification. Photo ID laws make vote fraud more difficult, which is a problem when you’re trying to steal elections. Simultaneously, Soros is funding the push for amnesty among so-called conservatives.
•The documented associations and dealings between the Clintons and Soros are too numerous to list in full, but include Media Matters, the push for “climate change” legislation through the United Nations, and the aforementioned Center for American Progress/John Podesta.
•Hillary’s closest aide and “surrogate” daughter of the Clintons is Huma Abedin, whose entire family is involved with global Muslim Brotherhood organizations and programs.
Islam is a religion founded by a warlord. It spread through the sword and through conquest. It is naturally aggressive, as world history demonstrates beyond reasonable disagreement. Jihad, or holy war, is a religious duty for all Muslims.
Yet today Islam has found partners in the West who make conquest possible, largely without war. It is conquest through infiltration, influence, and the domination of American legal system, economy, and government.
The conspiracy to undermine America’s sovereignty is enabled by lust for power and simple greed. The Muslim Brotherhood has equal partners in Obama, the Clintons, and George Soros. Corporations are all too happy to go along if it helps their bottom line.
Victory means replacing the Constitution with Sharia, or Islamic, law. To some extent, they have already succeeded in Europe, where criticizing Islam is banned by “hate speech” codes. Millions of Muslim immigrants live in Europe in localized areas governed by Sharia. This pattern is repeating itself now in the United States
Thomas Jefferson is rolling over in his grave.
Next comes being their Public Defender...
in the interests of fairness and civic
responsibility.
Obama administration will now communicate with jihad groups holding hostages, OPENLY
The families of these people should start to reconcile.
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