Posted on 08/21/2014 5:45:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Before Islamic extremists brutally beheaded an American journalist on camera, they demanded $132 million in ransom from his family and his employer.
Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists began sending messages to James Foley's family and the GlobalPost last fall, Philip Balboni, the news agency's head, told CNN.
At first the messages made political and financial demands.
"The captors never messaged a lot. There was a very limited number with a very specific purpose," he said. Then, last week, the fighters sent an email saying Foley would be killed.
"The message was vitriolic and filled with rage against the United States. It was deadly serious," Balboni said. Foley freelanced for GlobalPost, a Boston-based international news agency, before he was kidnapped in Syria in 2012.
The same terrorists also demanded at least $100 million from the United States government in exchange for Foley's release, the New York Times reported.
It's unclear if the requested $132 million from the family or the $100 million from the U.S. would have satisfied the terrorists' demands.
Sticking to its longstanding policy of refusing to negotiate with terrorists, the U.S. declined to funnel the funds.
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-——Arrest her——
Maybe the person arresting Valarie will yank the guiotinne cord beheading Lois
“Sticking to its longstanding policy of refusing to negotiate with terrorists,”.
Yeah, think that one os over! We just Arm them now!
Make those 2 share a jail cell until they die; they both deserve it.
There is no negotiating with terrorists or pirates. No ransom. No giving in to their demands. That is a well-established principle of anti-terrorism.
The moment you give in to their demands, you empower them and the next one.
Sometimes this policy results in hostages being killed. Regardless, this policy is still the right one.
Take the Handcuffs and Blindfolds off the Intelligence Community and let them loose
........”take the locks off the firing switches of zeroed in ballistic nuclear missiles and flip the switch!”
There!....fixed it!
“I was shocked to see David Hunt on FOX t”
You’re kidding——he’s usually so hard-core hawkish that surprises me.
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