cyber and homeland security at george washington university. he is a former special assistant to george w. bush on homeland security issues. why do you think isis negotiates when apparently he had been killed much earlier? almost a month earlier? this is propaganda. at the end of the day i don t think there was a legitimate attempt to negotiate or raise the ransom. it was propaganda primarily aimed to raise voices to overthrow king in jordan. looked like it may have had the opposite effect very similar to the bombing at a jordan wedding where he thought that may have turned islamists against jordanians. with the twitter universe and everything else why don t they just wait? ice ks use it to their advantage but it also works