Starting in late 2012, Westerners employed in Syria — journalists and help workers — started disappearing with out a trace. A year later the world learned that they had been taken hostage from the Islamic Condition. Throughout 2014, all the Europeans came home, 1st the Spanish, then the French, after that an Italian, a German, and a Dane. In August 2014, the Islamic Condition began performing the People in america — including journalists Adam Foley and Steven Sotloff, accompanied by the Uk hostages.

Joel Simon, who in nearly two decades at the Committee to Protect Journalists has worked on a large number of hostages situations, delves into the heated hostage policy argument. The Europeans paid huge amount of money to a terrorist group to free their hostages. THE UNITED STATES and the united kingdom refused to do so, arguing that any ransom will be used to energy terrorism and would make the criminal offense more attractive, increasing the risk to their citizens. We Want to Negotiate can be an exploration of the ethical, legal, and proper considerations of a bedeviling query: Should government authorities spend ransom to terrorists?