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Resistance — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 12:55:19 +0000

RANSOM

In a subtext not entirely

jollyroger — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 10:53:07 +0000

In reply to It continues to be an issue.

In a subtext not entirely without it's ironic aspects, given the rather modest price for the companion hostage, and granting that the timing of the raid was do or die that day, might not our guy have been purchased alive for less than it cost us to get both of them back dead?

But, then, we do not negotiate, blah, blah, blah.

So sad. The right hand doesn

Resistance — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 05:14:36 +0000

In reply to It continues to be an issue.

So sad. The right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing.

It continues to be an issue.

artappraiser — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 04:55:29 +0000

In reply to No jury would convict.

It continues to be an issue. The U.S. op to rescue Luke Somers killed South African Pierre Korkie hours before he was to be released for paid ransom:

At 6, Awaiting Hostage’s Release. After 8, Learning That He’s Dead.

By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI

Hours from being released by Qaeda abductors in Yemen, in return for a $200,000 ransom arranged by his family and a charity group, Pierre Korkie of South Africa was killed as Navy SEALs tried to rescue his American cellmate.

how did he end up being the

artappraiser — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 07:56:09 +0000

In reply to Hagel "We could and should

how did he end up being the fall guy in front of Congress for the White House, the N.S.A. and the F.B.I.? Strange.

Hagel "We could and should

jollyroger — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 06:08:59 +0000

In reply to No jury would convict.

Hagel "We could and should maybe revisit..." Short of an apology, less than coherent,

And no one will be granted

jollyroger — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 10:49:32 +0000

In reply to They just want to make sure

And no one will be granted such goodness...

No virgins for you!

Edit to add: The real James Conway (Jimmy Burke) has been quoted to the effect that the real guy who Joe Pesci played in Goodfellas was WAY more casually homicidal even than as portrayed, For instance, one time having bought a "new to him" gun which he was carrying home in a paper bag, he passed a guy on the street, pulled it out, and killed this utter stranger "to test the gun".

They just want to make sure

artappraiser — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 09:32:18 +0000

In reply to They're gonna keep doing it:

They just want to make sure we all give them respekt due as most badass gang on the planet.

A lot of them are looking more and more like characters Joe Pesci might play. Sure ain't about Allah anymore.

Interesting that Mrs. Foley's

jollyroger — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 21:39:36 +0000

In reply to NYT according to interviews

Interesting that Mrs. Foley's efforts at present, to prevent her son's death from being "in vain" center around preventing further victimization of families by our own government.

NYT according to interviews

artappraiser — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 13:41:59 +0000

In reply to No jury would convict.

NYT according to interviews with two dozen people, including members of Mr. Foley’s family, witnesses to his time in captivity, his colleagues and a network of consultants who tried to win his release.

For Foley’s Family, Policy Offered No Hope

By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI

After James Foley was kidnapped by ISIS, the government offered sympathy but little active support, his family said, leaving them overwhelmed and unsure of what to do.