[JustPiper]

Oh No NOT Italy too!!!

Italian Hostages freed due to ransome being paid - Rome Paid Big Ransom to Free Hostages
Reuters ^ | Sept.29 | Luke Baker
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1230425/posts
Ransom payments seen fuelling Iraq's hostage crisis
http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?idq=/ff/story/0002/20040929/0716587654.htm&photoid=20040928PPC101&floc=NW_1-T

[little jeremiah]

As desperate as I can imagine those hostages' parents and relatives were, the very idea of rewarding butchers for capturing people will only cause more of the same.

And then the big bucks are going to terrorists to fund their evil.

Bad, bad idea.