Don't think they want to be handed back T.
Neither do they want to be used by the folk who started this mess.

I agree with those who think it stupid/foolhardy to go out there in the first place.
We need to put more pressure on our politicians both here and in US to bring an end to our envolvement.....but apathy prevails as usual.

As you say most of these kidnappings are purely criminal...for money, and they prove that the country is far from secure.
When this situation is allied to infiltration of the army and police by fundamentalists and sectarian murders carried out daily, is there anyone left who thinks the war winnable??

With the exception of "mad Tony" I mean.....Ake