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ISIS Has Japanese Hostages—and Japan Doesn't Care
While the clock ticks down for two Japanese hostages held by ISIS, their countrymen think they've brought the problem on themselves. Japanese government officials continued to press for the release of two Japanese citizens being held by Islamist militants in Syria late Friday, even as a presumed deadline for paying the $200 million ransom expired.
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Give them money and it is a signal to take more people and hold them to ransom.
Yep it's been like that since the beginning of time. That's why negotiations are so rare.
They didn't have to go there. They chose too