The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarter's Expenses?
Posted on 08/27/2014 8:37:24 AM PDT by BlatherNaut
Islamic State militants are reportedly demanding $6.6 million and the release of a U.S. prisoner before they will free a third American hostage held by the group, an unidentified aid worker.
A source confirmed to Fox News that the aid worker is a 26-year-old woman from the West Coast. They did not provide further details, but ABC News reported that the woman, whose relatives have requested she not be identified, is the third of at least four Americans known to be held by the extremist Muslim organization. American journalist James Foley was executed by the group in a video that circulated online last week. Steven Sotloff, formerly of Miami, Florida, was also seen alive in the same footage and purportedly remains in Islamic State custody.
The terror organization also has demanded that U.S. authorities release Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist who was convicted in 2010 of trying to kill U.S. officials two years earlier. Siddiqui, 42, who reportedly married a nephew of Al Qaeda mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in 2003, was later sentenced to 86 years in prison. The Karachi native, who was educated in the United States and earned degrees from M.I.T. and Brandeis University, remains in federal custody in Texas.
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I’m starting a release fund.
Please forward all proceeds to me. /s/
Barack says you can’t have 6.6 Million but I still have some of your friends at Gitmo I want to get rid of.
$6.6 million and the release of a U.S. prisoner
picky are they??
I refuse to send them $1 from the US Treasury.
Oh wait, it’s not up to me... or any other American taxpayer whether to raid the treasure to pay ransom.
I wonder how they got the number....6.6 mil?
They will probably kill her either way.
They are pigs.
How many zeros in one million? 6!
I pray for this young woman’s safety, and hope she is rescued and found to be whole and hale when she is.
I would also very much understand if the friends and family of this woman were of a mind to see the ransom paid. I know if it were my sister or wife, I’d just want her back safe.
All that said, I have to believe that paying the ransom money would very likely lead to more such kidnappings, perhaps with even greater demands. It may well also lead to even greater consequences. $6 million-plus can pay for a lot of terrorist misery - explosives, bribes, recruiting, and so on.
Here’s to hoping SEALS/DELTA/AFSOC/etc. can free her...and that the administration will keep its damn mouth shut about it for a change.
6.6 million in small bills tainted with anthrax might go a long way to diminishing their numbers.
Our founding fathers refused to negotiate with terrorists.
From the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli.
Roosevelt said “This government wants Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead.” When the husband of an American citizen were kidnapped from their home by Mulai Ahmed er Raisuli's bandits.
Of course Roosevelt also sent US war ships and Marines to Morocco to reinforce his words.
Wow. Send the bastards 6 mil in bombs, missles and Spookie ammo.
It might be the US dollar equivalent of 100,000 goats, or some such thing.
The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarter's Expenses?
OK, I don’t want her name but I want to know what she was doing there and who’s side she is on. Before I get all emotionally involved and all.
These people that willing go into s#%thole countries and situations accepted the risks.
I've gotten a little tired of people looking at the military as a solution to other people's stupidity. Putting resources and highly trained individuals at risk, because someone wanted to be able to feel good about themselves in some way is nonsense.
Play in the lions den, and you will get bit.
The current administration has already negotiated with terrorists; the Bergdahl swap.
I require evidence that she is worth even a plug nickel.
This Thread is Useless Without Pics!!!
Publicly announce the approval of $6.6 million in ordinance to be used on ISIS.
Then drop $6.6 Million of ordinance on them.
Then see if they repeat the demand.
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