If you decide to go to a dangerous place to work or provide aid, consider there is a chance you will be taken hostage. Be honest with yourself about the risks before you go.
It’s okay to take a risk, if you’re the only one that suffers when it goes bad. Rescuing you might cost someone else’s life.
Petty Officer 1st Class Nicolas D. Checque, 28, of Monroeville, Pennsylvania, died Saturday, December 8, 2012 during the effort to free Dr. Dilip Joseph. The American doctor was abducted five days earlier by the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan. Military commanders believed Joseph was in imminent danger from his captors when the raid took place.
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