Some debate over whether an individual or State should do deals with hostages but my provisional rather than definitive view is that they should not as it gives sucor and financial aid to terorists who will be emboldened to carry out yet more hostage taking so that in paying ransom to free one's loved one or State's citizen it is tantamount to aiding and abetting terrorists,contributing to future hostage taking and it is therfor a criminal act of collaboration and collusion.
There is more than one way to support the enemy and it makes no difference whether the support is material and financial or spiritual/intellectual.A prisoner swap whilst not adding any direct financial benefit to the hostage takers gives them cachet,emboldens and empowers their cause and leverages their influence and therfor their ability to wreak destruction and terorise in order to achieve their stated objectives.(It is for this reason that the famous broadcasters nicknamed Lord Haw Haw who contributed propaganda to the Germans during world war two was rightly considered a traitor to the West and who when he was apprehended was put on trial and executed as a defacto enemy combatant as he had lent intellectual succor to the Nazi war machine which was hell bent on the destruction of Britain).
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