Posted on 10/09/2023 12:16:44 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
“While welcoming our Iran hostages home, I said at the time — paying ransom (eg unfreezing $6 billion) is problematic because it incentivizes new hostage taking & gives terrorists money for new operations. I didn’t think we would see these points illustrated so vividly, so quickly,” O’Brien posted on X.
O’Brien served during the Trump administration as the special presidential envoy for hostage affairs from 2018 through 2019 and helped secure the release of American pastor Andrew Brunson from Turkey in 2018. He also helped secure the release of Danny Burch, an American oil worker in Yemen.
O’Brien said he called on President Joe Biden on Saturday to deploy the FBI Hostage Rescue Team and Joint Special Operations Command’s hostage extraction forces to assist Israel.
“We now know [American citizens] have been taken by Hamas,” O’Brien posted. “Those teams should be airborne to the region now to be in a position to rescue our countrymen.”
While welcoming our Iran hostages home, I said at the time- paying ransom (eg unfreezing $6 billion) is problematic because it incentivizes new hostage taking & gives terrorists money for new operations. I didn't think we would see these points illustrated so vividly, so quickly.
— Robert C. O'Brien (@robertcobrien) October 8, 2023
Earlier Sunday morning, Secretary of State Antony Blinken told NBC News the Biden administration was still “very actively working” to verify reports that Americans were among those dead in Israel and taken hostage.
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Of course it did.
This attack was not planned over two weeks.
You don’t just line up 5,000 rockets overnight. This has been in planning for a long time.
While I think releasing the funds was a stupid thing to do and it does embolden the Iranians. But I believe this was going to happen anyway.
100s have already mentioned it. But we traded...so we got something, too. why we had to add the money...instead of doing 5 for 5....cuz biden and blinkin are stupid.
agree
Biden is guilty of treason
Feels like the hostage crisis all over again...
Heck yeah, with the ayatollah getting a billion dollars a head from each kidnapee lately, he’s counting heads.
But the Big Guy gets 10% of the transaction...
Me too!
https://apnews.com/article/gulf-iran-us-tensions-shipping-oil-127f8b77aa7e41dcd8266b6fbe5800dc
Iran is the aggressor here but last paragraph tells us it’s Trump’s fault for being too tough on Iran.
Iran has known for a while that they were going to get this money released. Maybe even for many months they've known. With that knowledge in hand they started supplying, planning and training the necessary hamasjihadi's.
I would wager that Iran already had this money well ahead of any public knowledge.
"U.S. Assistance to the Palestinian People
As we work toward a negotiated two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, we are also increasing our assistance to the Palestinian people. Since April 2021, the United States has provided over half a billion dollars in assistance for the Palestinians, including more than $417 million in humanitarian assistance for Palestinian refugees through UNRWA, $75 million in support through USAID, and $20.5 million in COVID and Gaza recovery assistance.
The U.S. government plans to provide an additional $75 million in economic assistance to the Palestinian people this year. Additionally, the United States is also providing $45 million for programs to support the security sector including important improvements to the rule of law."
The $6B freed up those funds to spend on this and other terrorist attacks.
BTW Palestine equals Hamas.
And I meant the expected $6B, which did happen thanks to the Biden regime.
Anything other than brute force and related death encourages terrorists.
Think you might find my comment at https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4188213/posts?page=16#16 and my following two comments informative. Lines up with what you said.
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