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Originally Posted by peter12
We probably don't know much of what went on. Somalia has no government, so there are no official diplomatic routes to explore. Certainly there had to have been an exploration of a military option.
Anything more and I have to go with everyone else on this one, it was her family's duty to pay the ransom.
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I'm not going to say that the government should be in the business of paying ransoms. That is a very bad idea and we probably agree there. I do think that the government could've made this a larger issue in general though...kind of speaks volumes that a lot of people had no idea that this even happened or what the story was here?
I do think that although this might set a bad precedent in general almost anyone would pay to have a member of the nuclear family freed.