We Want to Negotiate: The Secret World of Kidnapping, Hostages and Ransom Audiobook (Free)

Starting in late 2012, Westerners employed in Syria — journalists and aid workers — began disappearing without a trace. A year later the world learned that they had been taken hostage with the Islamic State. Throughout 2014, all the Europeans came house, 1st the Spanish, then the French, then an Italian, a German, and a Dane. In August 2014, the Islamic Condition began performing the Americans — including journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, followed by the Uk hostages.

Joel Simon, who in nearly 2 decades at the Committee to safeguard Journalists spent some time working on a large number of hostages instances, delves into the heated hostage plan argument. The Europeans paid huge amount of money to a terrorist group to free of charge their hostages. The US and the UK refused to do so, arguing that any ransom would be used to gasoline terrorism and would make the criminal offense more attractive, increasing the risk to their citizens. You want to Negotiate can be an exploration of the ethical, legal, and tactical considerations of a bedeviling issue: Should government authorities pay ransom to terrorists?