Obama refused to pay ransom for James Foley in spite of the fact that he paid a 5 million dollar ransom for hostages, two years ago.

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The NYTimes is reporting this refusal to save Foley:    Kneeling in the dirt in a desert somewhere in the Middle East, James Foley lost his life this week at the hands of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Before pulling out the knife used to decapitate him, his masked executioner explained that he was killing the 40-year-old American journalist in retaliation for the recent United States’ airstrikes against the terrorist group in Iraq.

In fact, until recently, ISIS had a very different list of demands for Mr. Foley: The group pressed the United States to provide a multimillion-dollar ransom for his release, according to a representative of his family and a former hostage held alongside him. The United States — unlike several European countries that have funneled millions to the terror group to spare the lives of their citizens — refused to pay.

Editor’s notes:  We refused to pay this ransom,  arguing that "America does not make deals with terrorists."   I remind the readership of the Bergdahl hostage trade (a human ransom paid to demanding terrorists for a deserter) and the fact that Obama paid a $5 million ransom to terrorists in Egypt,  several years ago.  

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