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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: rich4eagle who wrote (248110)	4/15/2002 10:01:52 PM
From: bonnuss_in_austin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Ransom Arranged to Rebel Group ... truthout.org ---snip--- <<"So I think it's pretty clear that we're not going to get in the business of paying off hostage takers," State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said on Feb. 22. But the Bush administration has done just that, arguing behind closed doors that they simply tried to help private citizens pay the money to a terrorist group that sometimes frees people who do pay ransom and invariably kills those who do not. >> truthout.org