France Admits Paying Hostage Ransoms to ISIS

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Or rather France admits by denying or denies by admitting it.

US and British officials have criticised France for “buying out” hostages. Four French journalists were freed by IS at Easter.

Asked why French hostages were freed, while US and British hostages are beheaded, Mr Hollande said: “France does not pay ransom. Nor does France exchange prisoners. That doesn’t mean other countries don’t do it to help us. I concede that.”

Referring to the French journalists in Syria, he added, “We did everything we could and we succeeded because other countries helped us.”

That’s called plausible deniability. Though this isn’t even plausible. It’s barely deniability.

Are other countries (Qatar) paying these ransoms to ISIS out of the goodness of their hearts? Doubtful. Are they getting something in exchange. Obviously.

Why are they paying these ransoms for French hostages but not for British or American hostages? Obviously because there’s an arrangement in place.

So France gets its hostages ransomed through a third party as part of an unspecified arrangement. Hollande’s hands officially remain clean while remaining unofficially very dirty.

  • Texas Patriot

    So now the French are more likely to be taken hostage, but also more likely to be ransomed? Pathétique!

  • ObamaYoMoma

    Paying ransoms just like the crap that led to the Barbary Wars. ISIS is the reincarnation of the old Ottoman Turk Empire. It’s an exact carbon copy. I guess the old Ottoman Turk Empire wasn’t Islamic then.

  • Hard Little Machine

    To rip a page from Obama “IF I worked for ISIS, I’d demand they free terrorists from French prisons instead”