We don’t negotiate with terrorists
Or maybe we do. From Bill Roggio:
The British are all smiles over the release of Peter Moore, a British citizen who was held hostage by an Iranian-backed Shia terror group in Iraq. But there is little talk about the price paid to secure Moore's release. The US military has freed Qais Qazali, the leader of the Asaib al Haq, or League of the Righteous, as well as his brother Laith, several Qods Force officers, and more than 100 members of the terror group, in exchange for Moore. And that isn't all. The British also received the corpses of three security contractors who were working to protect Moore when he was kidnapped at the Finance Ministry in Baghdad in May 2007. The three contractors were executed by the Asaib al Haq; another is also thought to have been killed.
Qais Qazli wasn't just some run of the mill Shia thug; his group is backed by Iran. Qazali's men were trained by Iranian Qods Force to infiltrate and assault the Provincial Joint Coordination Center in Karbala in January 2007. Five US soldiers were killed during the kidnapping attempt. The US soldiers were executed after US and Iraqi security forces closed in on the assault team.
Roggio further notes that it appears President Barack Obama has either violated an executive order or more likely rescinded an executive order without telling anyone. Specifically the executive order that bars negotiating with terrorists.
I’ve been critical of the Israeli tendency to free terrorists who have killed Israelis in order to recover hostages – and sometimes just the bodies of the hostages. The scale of the trade also always seems to be out of whack – usually hundreds of terrorists are freed (alive) in return for just a handful of (or one) Israelis (usually dead).
It appears we are following a similar course – one that will likely result in more dead and captured Americans.
Will the press be asking any tough questions on this subject?
Don’t hold your breath.
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When someone asks if a Palestinian life is worth the same as an Israelis, I always point the the exchange rate set by the Palestinians. I you say that you want to trade 1 Israeli for 250 Palestinians, you have already conceded what your life is worth.