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Is Time Always Your Friend?
Hostage takers are convinced that the value of a hostage just goes up with time. If they have to hold te person for ten years, so be it. Andand very few hostages survive ten years in captivity. So time is never your friend. You also want to stop a secretary of stated travelling to syria. All they're going to hear is, oh, of course, we don't know what happened to this hostage. We've been totally on your side while the hostage is dying in their basement."