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KBOO
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Air date:
Mon, 12/29/2014 - 11:00am to 11:30am
Exclusive interview with lawyer Stanley Cohen on effort to release ISIS hostage
On this KBOO exclusive, we speak with Stanley Cohen, the lifelong activist lawyer whose commitment to justice has brought him to odds with the US government on more than one occasion.
This time, however, Stanley found himself in the position of having to coordinate with State Department officials when he traveled to Jordan in October as a private individual to try to secure the release of Peter Abdul-Rahman Kassig, who had been taken hostage by ISIS.
Whether the Jordanian government intentionally mis-led their powerful U.S. ally, or the U.S. had no intention of allowing it, the release effort was sabotaged when Jordan arrested one of those involved. Soon after that sabotage, Kassig was killed by his captors.
In this exclusive interview with Stanley Cohen, KBOO explores the possibilities of what happened and why, and discusses U.S. strategy toward ISIS, how the U.S. deals with hostage situations and where the larger geo-political situation in the Middle East is headed.
Stanley Cohen's website.
Article in The Guardian newspaper - Dec. 18, 2014 revealing the hostage release effort
This time, however, Stanley found himself in the position of having to coordinate with State Department officials when he traveled to Jordan in October as a private individual to try to secure the release of Peter Abdul-Rahman Kassig, who had been taken hostage by ISIS.
Whether the Jordanian government intentionally mis-led their powerful U.S. ally, or the U.S. had no intention of allowing it, the release effort was sabotaged when Jordan arrested one of those involved. Soon after that sabotage, Kassig was killed by his captors.
In this exclusive interview with Stanley Cohen, KBOO explores the possibilities of what happened and why, and discusses U.S. strategy toward ISIS, how the U.S. deals with hostage situations and where the larger geo-political situation in the Middle East is headed.
Stanley Cohen's website.
Article in The Guardian newspaper - Dec. 18, 2014 revealing the hostage release effort
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