White House repeatedly threatened James Foley's mother with prosecution if she paid a ransom to free her son. http://abcnews.go.com/International/government-threatened-foley-family-ransom-payments-mother-slain/story?id=25453963 …
@normative @onekade @trevortimm I really don't think delusional jihadis need an additional monetary incentive to carry out kidnappings.
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@mtracey@onekade@trevortimm I do. Time & resources are finite. A kidnapping nets $10k, you allocate a lot more to kidnapping. -
@normative@onekade@trevortimm Even if true, which I doubt, it would be a totally justifiable trade-off for saving a human life. - 8 more replies
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