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Haiti gang demands $17 million to release kidnapped American and Canadian missionaries
CBS News ^ | 19 October 2021 | uncredited

Posted on 10/19/2021 11:30:53 PM PDT by blueplum

Port-au-Prince, Haiti — Desperate efforts continued on Tuesday to save a group of missionaries, most of them Americans, being held for ransom by a criminal gang in Haiti. FBI agents were working with local authorities in the tiny Caribbean nation to find the 16 U.S. nationals and one Canadian who were kidnapped on Saturday.

The gang was asking for $1 million for each hostage — $17 million total — to release the missionaries, a high-ranking government source confirmed to CBS News. The dollar amount was first reported by The Wall Street Journal....

,,,Gagliano said that if it became clear the gang was killing or threatening to kill hostages, the U.S. law enforcement agency would likely have a strike team on hand to attempt a rescue operation....

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: christianaid; haiti; haitiankidnappings; letthechurchpay; ohio; shole
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1 posted on 10/19/2021 11:30:53 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: blueplum

Waiting to see Biden abandon them like he did folks in Afghanistan. Plus, just as in Afghanistan, why are US citizens here in the country?!


2 posted on 10/19/2021 11:34:24 PM PDT by Reno89519 (FJB. Respect America, Embrace America, Buy American, Hire American.)
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To: blueplum

I could see the SEALS going in for the rescue.... if PedoJoe wasn’t “in charge”.


3 posted on 10/19/2021 11:36:32 PM PDT by Bikkuri ("Anyone who trusts this government hasn't been paying attention." <Hat tip to DJ Macwow>)
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To: Bikkuri

Oh well.

They will get the vaxxed special forces to go in.

Whatever.

We live in Libtard World now.


4 posted on 10/19/2021 11:40:34 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: blueplum

A “strike team” of FBI agents? Now that would be something to see.


5 posted on 10/19/2021 11:41:15 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: blueplum

Jack Bauer could fix this in less than 24.


6 posted on 10/19/2021 11:53:13 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (Proudly posting comments without reading the articles since 2002.)
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To: Reno89519

“Plus, just as in Afghanistan, why are US citizens here in the country?”

Do-gooders not minding their own business.


7 posted on 10/20/2021 12:03:01 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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So your definition of a missionary is.....do gooder.
Could you not pray for them.


8 posted on 10/20/2021 12:55:44 AM PDT by Guenevere (When the foundations are being destroyed what can the righteous do t)
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To: blueplum
They know the identification of "the gang", so it stands to reason they know some gang members.

IMO, every American that leaves the USA for whatever purpose; good, bad or indifferent, should be thoroughly indoctrinated in hostage situations before leaving, and should sign a waver stating they should not expect to be ransomed back to safety.

This is 2021, folks ... what in HELL is going through peoples brains when they step onto potentially hostile soil?

IF you live and conduct your life in faith on God, you don't ask "the state" to do what you SAY God will do.


IMO, we should call their bluff and challenge them with American military might.

9 posted on 10/20/2021 2:07:27 AM PDT by knarf
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Kidnapping as a part of the “new” economy?

How many new jobs will this create?

So how much will the haitain immigrants demand for release of domestic hostages


10 posted on 10/20/2021 2:18:29 AM PDT by thinden
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“what in HELL is going through peoples brains when they step onto potentially hostile soil?”

Almost half of them are from Michigan. It’s probably their first time being away from college.


11 posted on 10/20/2021 2:21:27 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: Bikkuri

We should put the $17 million on a pallet in the middle of one of their soccer stadiums and ring the upper rows with marine snipers. “It’s all there homies... come and get it.”


12 posted on 10/20/2021 2:51:56 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: Bonemaker

thumbs up.


13 posted on 10/20/2021 2:55:36 AM PDT by ronniesgal (if more folks would mind their own business the world would be a better place.)
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To: Bonemaker
Christian Aid Ministries often works with conservative Mennonite, Amish and other groups that are with the Anabaptist tradition.

Yea, just a bunch of do-gooders....../s

14 posted on 10/20/2021 3:06:06 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Without potatoes, life has no meaning......)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Pay the Ransom and expect to see weekly kidnappings. Go kill the gang and it will stop.


15 posted on 10/20/2021 3:17:46 AM PDT by oldasrocks
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Go kill the gang and it will stop.

I think it would be an easy task for a Seal group.......

16 posted on 10/20/2021 3:27:03 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Without potatoes, life has no meaning......)
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To: blueplum

Once again, President Trump was right, but the left wont admit it. Haiti is a shthole country that we should not be taking refugees from.


17 posted on 10/20/2021 3:59:55 AM PDT by Ikeon (Lets go brandon )
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To: blueplum

Those Haitian thugs will get their 17 million and then be allowed to “immigrate” to the USA. It’s what Puppet Biden and his masters do.


18 posted on 10/20/2021 5:02:04 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Fauci is a murderer)
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To: blueplum

Haitians practicing their long established heritage. I wouldn’t be surprised if they killed all of the hostages, especially if they are white.


19 posted on 10/20/2021 5:31:19 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: Bonemaker

Precisely, f em.


20 posted on 10/20/2021 5:41:23 AM PDT by EEGator
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