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ISBN: B07M5V755S
Title: We Want to Negotiate Pdf The Secret World of Kidnapping, Hostages and Ransom (Columbia Global Reports)

Starting in late 2012, Westerners working in Syria - journalists and aid workers - began disappearing without a trace. A year later, the world learned they had been taken hostage by the Islamic State. Throughout 2014, all the Europeans came home, first the Spanish, then the French, then an Italian, a German, and a Dane. In August 2014, the Islamic State began executing the Americans - including journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, followed by the British hostages.

Joel Simon, who in nearly two decades at the Committee to Protect Journalists has worked on dozens of hostages cases, delves into the heated hostage policy debate. The Europeans paid millions of dollars to a terrorist group to free their hostages. The US and the UK refused to do so, arguing that any ransom would be used to fuel terrorism and would make the crime more attractive, increasing the risk to their citizens. We Want to Negotiate is an exploration of the ethical, legal, and strategic considerations of a bedeviling question: Should governments pay ransom to terrorists?

We Want to Negotiate We Want to Negotiate by Joel Simon is a free NetGalley ebook that I read in late December.Near or around the time that I chose to review this book, the journalist Jamal Khashoggi had been kidnapped and killed in Iraq, reportedly for writing liberal-minded articles with the New York Times and filing for divorce from his wife. Now, about 3-4 months after this occurrence, I decided to actually read this book and perhaps learn about what he may have knowingly gotten involved with or even been working alongside without foreseeing its hazards.Simon interviews journalists who have survived being kidnapped (many of which now work as advocates for victims of crime and refugees), as well as their close family and coworkers (particularly that of Jim Foley), plus experts within law enforcement fields. It brings to light the torturous and arduousness of negotiations, the dangers of choosing to raid and extract, and the regulations of international law, like the Patriot Act. Terrorist groups, pirates, and guerrilla revolutionaries as targeting journalists, members of a ruling class family, and international civilian subcontractors and aid workers, and use kidnapping as a way of spreading propaganda while using less resources to create a broader visible impact and to request monetary ransom and/or the release of imprisoned compatriots. All told, it's somewhat of a political intrigue thriller to read, but bogged down by a little too much jargon.For anyone interested in the subject, well worth the read. When I first read the author’s background I feared the book would be yet another typical offering that reflected a journalist’s biases and own social agenda rather than a simple statement of the facts. I was therefore pleasantly surprised that most of the book was a clear-eyed view of a complex and controversial subject. The policies and practices of various actors from governments to individual family members were described in enough detail to give a good overview of the present state of affairs regarding kidnapping for its many reasons. The one thing that I expected to be at least mentioned by some of those called upon to rescue kidnapping victims, however, was the question of why they thoughtlessly put themselves in a position to be taken hostage in the first place. For spies and diplomats I understand; for aid workers and journalists, not so much; for “adventure tourists” (as the book calls them), going into known danger zones and then expecting the resources of a national government to rescue them from their folly is unfathomable. Mountain search and rescue volunteers will grumble about having to find a hiker who was totally unprepared for the weather and the possibility his phone GPS dying, but no one expresses an opinion about a journalist who was kidnapped and then went back to the same danger area?In any event, I found the book informative enough that I will be giving it to a military special operations officer of my acquaintance.

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