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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 8:52 AM
Subject: re: U.S. Says It Told Qatar Not to Pay a Ransom
To: "letters@nytimes.com" <letters@nytimes.com>
From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 8:52 AM
Subject: re: U.S. Says It Told Qatar Not to Pay a Ransom
To: "letters@nytimes.com" <letters@nytimes.com>
To the Editor:
I find no comfort in government assurances "that it told the Qataris not to pay a ransom for [Peter Theo Curtis]". It smells of the same lawyerly evasions we were fed when we bought Raymond Davis out of a Pakistani jail. Is this one likewise a CIA hit-man, masquerading as a journalist this time, rather than as a diplomat?
The world will be a safer place when our government and any potential kidnappers understand the lesson of "Captain Phillips". Taking an American hostage should get you a bullet in the head, and not a bag of cash.
Barry Haskell Levine
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