WHY WAS FOLEY'S RANSOM NOT PAID WHEN OTHERS HAVE?

A ransom was asked for James Foley. It was not paid. Ransoms for hostages from nations other than the USA have been paid: Spain; Armenia; France. And apparently Qatar was the broker.

So why was Foley's ransom not paid?

How much will any retribution cost in comparison to the proposed ransom?

According to a June 2014 statement by Treasury undersecretary David S. Cohen, ransom payments are now second only to state sponsorship as a source of revenue for terrorist organizations, implying that kidnapping for profit is ahead of even private contributions, bank robbery, and other forms of fundraising. To be sure, Foley was killed for political and ideological reasons — and possibly to trigger a galvanizing or strategically costly U.S. response. But ISIS also has a recent history of using other foreign prisoners as a means of filling its coffers.

Kidnapping was a crucial early source of funding as ISIS scaled up its operations in 2013, and the group has had some success in ransoming foreign prisoners. It released two Spanish journalists after receiving an undisclosed sum in March of 2014, and there's evidence that ISIS was looking for smaller payoffs, too. In a recent article in the Arabic-language newspaper Al Hayat translated by Al Monitor, a former ISIS prisoner recounted his jailers demanding $100,000 apiece for the freedom of two ethnic Armenians held in a prison in northeastern Syria.

...In April of 2014, a McClatchy report cited anonymous European intelligence agents who claimed the gas-rich Gulf emirate had helped broker the release of ISIS-held foreign hostages on three occasions. The same report said that the agents believe Qatar was the unnamed Persian Gulf country that had helped broker a "sizable payment" that secured the April release of four French journalists whom the group had been holding captive.

Qatar has facilitated payments to a range of terrorist groups, including a $4 million fee that freed 13 nuns from Syrian Jihadist group Jabhat al-Nusra, and a $20.4 million ransom paid with the Omani government to spring four hostages from Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Most notably, Qatar helped broker the release of U.S. Army officer Bowe Bergdahl, whom the Taliban had held for nearly five years.

[source : ISIS Has Been Taking Foreign Hostages Since The Very Beginning — And Getting Paid For Them, Business Insider, http://www.businessinsider.com/isiss-history-of-hostage-taking-2014-8, 20th August 2014]

This stinks of a provocation.

Was Foley sacrificed to trick Obama into war?

Why would Dodgy Dave urgently return to London from his holiday to discuss the retribution for the execution of one American by an assumed British Jihadi in Syria, when MI5 have been allowing extremist Islamic preachers like Adebalajo to preach Jihad on the streets of London, and he doesn't implement the main recommendations of an inquiry that was set up after Adebelajo murdered Lee Rigby to investigate how to curb the growth of Islamic extremism?

And why was Foley's ransom not paid?

How much did that failed rescue mission cost?

THIS ALL STINKS!!