These are men like Sean: the knuckle-draggers, as they’re sometimes called, who are contracted to handle the logistical legwork such as pickups and drop-offs. But it is a business, and just as there are career kidnappers-pirates, South American gangs, Niger Delta militants-there are career responders too.Ī hostage-response operation comes in two parts: the crisis-management team (CMT), led by a negotiator, and an incident-response team (IRT), comprising the men on the ground. Each one is a tangle of false leads, misaligned interests and lies. There is no “normal” kidnapping and ransom (K&R) case. You Will Be Sold to ISIS in Three Hours, and Only He Can Save You The pressures on the families are unimaginable. they are paid success fees, so the amounts raised by families have to be increased to meet the ever-changing financial targets. Even more complex are the shadowy intermediaries who claim to know the “real” ransom amount. The issue is not “Do we pay ransoms?” but “Who pays the ransoms?”
Hostage negotiations: There are no simple answers, just harsh dilemmas Rye survived, and what follows is his account, the most intimately detailed ever from inside an ISIS jail, described in terrifying but utterly compelling terms by writer Puk Damsgård… With him were hostages John Cantlie, Alan Henning and Foley himself. The bone-chilling story of survival, from Jihadi John's ransomed hostageĭaniel Rye, 26, was on the trail of missing journalist James Foley when, in 2013, he was seized in Syria.įor 13 months he was beaten and tortured by British-born IS thugs.
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