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The Crisis Responseer's Job Is to Negotiate Hostage Release
Daniel levin negotiates hostage release in syria. The first instinct is to let go to the media, he says. But what that does is it just drives hostage value a big time. It's suddenly al ida wants to know where this guy is rather than the two guys who kidnapped him in a fake taxi. And so now you're sitting there until they can ascertain your real value which might take months or years.