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Slate Articles ([info]slate) wrote,
@ 2015-01-09 14:30:00

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Let Them Go! Please?

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2009/04/let_him_go_please.html

As of Friday morning, two hostage standoffs are taking place in France, one with the Charlie Hebdo shooters north of Paris, and another, possibly related, at a kosher grocery in the city. How do hostage negotations work? During the 2009 hijacking of the Maersk Alabama off the coast of Somalia, Christopher Beam explained. His article is reprinted below:


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