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Jim Jackson said:
If the terrorists intent was to not negotiate and only to destroy lives and property, why not just go in and blow everything up? Why take hostages?




To give a sense of false hope.

If you think they will negotiate, then you have hope. You believe that there is a chance the hostages will be released.

That is their point.

That is their greatest weapon.

That is the true terror that they spread.

<sub>Will Eisner's last work - The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
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