[nuconvert]

“South Korea paid Afghanistan’s Taliban more than $20 million (9.9 million pounds) to release 19 missionaries they were holding hostage, a senior insurgent leader said”

They may have paid that, but this information is coming from “a senior insurgent leader”. His statements are self-serving.

[TigerLikesRooster]

I hope you are right, but am not so hopeful, though.