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  • ISIS demanding $30 million to free Christian hostages, Assyrian source says

    04/09/2015 3:56:47 PM PDT · by Fali_G · 11 replies
    Fox News ^ | 04/09/2015 | Lisa Daftari
    EXCLUSIVE - Islamic State militants are demanding up to $30 million in ransom to release the hundreds of Christian hostages in Syria, according to an officer within the Assyrian leadership. In ongoing negotiations between ISIS terrorists and the Assyrian leadership to free the 250-300 Christians abducted by the militant group in February, ISIS is demanding $100,000 per individual, according to the source. Third-party Syrian Sunni Muslims from the local area are reported to be brokering the talks between the two groups. “They know we cannot come up with this kind of money, so they are hoping other groups and countries...