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Paying Ransoms Puts Innocent American Citizens At Risk: U.S.
WASHINGTON: The U.S. has said payment of routine ransom to terrorist only puts other innocent American citizens at risk while defending its decision to swap five Taliban prisoners with the kidnapped soldiers in Afghanistan.
"Routinely paying ransoms only puts other innocent American citizens at risk of being kidnapped and held for ransom. And the last thing that we'd want to do is heighten the risk even more for innocent American citizens," White House Press Secretary, Josh Earnest said yesterday.
"It is the policy of the United States of America that we do not pay ransom or make concessions to terrorist groups to secure the release of hostages. That is a policy that has been put in place for a couple of reasons," he said when asked about demands of ransom by ISIS terrorists for release of American nationals abducted by them.
"It is well documented that many extremist terrorist organisations use the revenue stream of ransoms to finance their broader operations. In some cases, that's actually the lifeblood of their organisation is being able to collect these ransoms and to roll that money into broader operations," he said.
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Source: PTI
