??????????????????? This is the top headline from Fox on 2/9/09. W/ the usual refusal to say if ISAF offered to pay a ransom.

2009	Reuters Horrific video sent to news agencies by Pakistani Taliban graphically shows beheading of Piotr Stanczak, a Polish engineer kidnapped last September.

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