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Should Nations Negotiate With Captors? - Page 2

Did cost of recovering Idaho POW include the life of Utah soldier?

Reports from various news outlets quoted servicemen questioning the cost of bringing home a soldier. Ref. Source 4

Captors Negotiate Nations Should

I don't think there is an easy answer to this. In principle you shouldn't but then again you want to get captured soldiers out of there.

Should Nations Negotiate With Captors? History & Civil Business Politics

Yes, nations should negotiate with captors. They should use aggressive negotiations with guns. They shouldn't just leave their soldiers to rot. They should rescue them with force.

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U.S. Officials never interviewed the fixer for American journalist Steven Sotloff about how he, Sotloff and three armed guards were abducted in Syria by purported ISIS fighters in 2013, the fixer, Yosef Abobaker, tells CNN's Karl Penhaul.

FBI spokesman Paul Bresson said that the agency "Is actively investigating the savage murder of Steven Sotloff at the hands of terrorists and will not discuss investigative details at this time." Ref. CNN

Captors Negotiate Nations Should

Henning murder 'unforgivable' - PM

Murder of hostage Alan Henning "Abhorrent, senseless and completely unforgivable", UK PM David Cameron says Ref. BBC

Should Nations Negotiate With Captors?

White House has announced a presidential directive and an executive order that will allow the government to communicate and negotiate with terrorist groups holding American hostages.

Officials will now be allowed to talk to those terror groups and discuss ways to secure the Americans' release, though the government will maintain its policy of not making concessions to captors.

While the government won't pay ransom, officials will no longer threaten with criminal prosecution the families of American hostages looking to pay ransom to their relatives' captors. Ref. CNN