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Originally Posted by dr wadd
If they have any sense they would simply not pay. I suspect that there would be public uproar if the government attempted to make a hostage pay for their rescue, I certainly would expect that to be the case if the hostages were British.
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That might be the case in the UK, but according to that report, in Japan it's the hostages who are Public Enemy No. 1 because their families went on TV and demanded the withdrawl of Japanese troops from Iraq in order to secure their release. This did not go down very well with the public, apparently.