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Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with

Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each piece as you slowly put it together; then you leave an exit through which both the captor and the captive can walk with sincerity and dignity. – Terry Waite

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The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies. – Terry Waite

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The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies. – Terry Waite

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Terrorism

Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary. He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination. – Jean Baudrillard

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If we like them, theyre freedom fighters . . . If we dont like them, theyre terrorists. In the unlikely case we cant make up our minds, theyre temporarily only guerrillas. – Carl Sagan

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Over time its going to be important for nations to know they will be held accountable for inactivity. Youre either with us or against us in the fight against terror. – George W. Bush

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