Anybody else not yet not paid?
The Times reported Monday that France, Germany and Italy have not paid over $45 million to gain the release of their hostages in Iraq. Jordan, Romania, Sweden and Turkey didn’t pay for the release of their hostages in Iraq, either. Britain neither – just “expenses” for intermediaries who helped them make contact with the kidnappers. Neither did some US companies for their employees kidnapped there. The US government was apparently not available for comment about any payments they have most certainly not made.
The breakdown rough guesstimate of the non-payments as of this writing is as follows:
Germany: $ 8 million.
Italy: $11 million.
France: $25 million.
There are no reliable figures about what those other remaining el cheapo countries/companies involved here were not willing to shell out but it couldn’t have been much more than a million or two for each of their hostages that they didn’t pay for.
Some Hitzkopf (hothead) politicians and uninformed people on the street are angered at the behavior of these governments and argue that the whole not paying ransom thing only encourages gangs and thugs and terrorists to keep grabbing more foreign captives.
But these folks just don’t get it, calmly reply their uppity spokesmen. Once a government starts saying it pays, they say, only then does it encourage gangs and thugs and terrorists to keep grabbing more foreign captives. What part of not paying don’t you understand?
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