stagnant. it s going to shift and you re not going to be able to rely on it when you re on the ground immediately. however, the reality is we re put in a position where we re seen as a paper tiger now. now they re going to take precautions to make it impossible now to rescue other hostages. that was my point, steve and mike. there s in point in saying we tried but didn t get them other than to tell the enemy we re coming after our guys. the group behind this team is al qaeda. we re not talking isis now. we re not talking syria and iraq. how were these guys different from isis in. well, they re not different from isis. actually, they re in competition and what they realized is isis, by the tune of tens of millions of dollars by taking hostages and getting them paid by ransom money, this is exactly what was going on with this set of hostages. they were going to get paid ransom money, had a set of demands.
and al qaeda realized isis was getting fame and recruitment. now it s open season on americans around the world. al qaeda is in rivalry with isis in the same type of tactics and you can be sure that al qaeda is going to be killing americans no matter where they are, not necessarily directedly al qaeda core but by al qaeda inspired people, like we saw just last week, a woman who was killed. and americans killed in sinai. like the israelis has been killed around the world. it seems that americans are going to be more at risk of being taken hostage. what can we do about this? well, americans and our alley, westerners all over. but we do what we continue to do. it s a little unusual to say, also, that, you know, well, this unsuccessful raid makes us a paper tiger. it doesn t make us a paper tiger. it s the reality of it.
stagnant. it s going to shift and you re not going to be able to rely on it when you re on the ground immediately. however, the reality is we re put in a position where we re seen as a paper tiger now. now they re going to take precautions to make it impossible now to rescue other hostages. that was my point, steve and mike. there s in point in saying we tried but didn t get them other than to tell the enemy we re coming after our guys. the group behind this team is al qaeda. we re not talking isis now. we re not talking syria and iraq. how were these guys different from isis in. well, they re not different from isis. actually, they re in competition and what they realized is isis, by the tune of tens of millions of dollars by taking hostages and getting them paid by ransom money, this is exactly what was going on with this set of hostages. they were going to get paid ransom money, had a set of demands.
militants and escape with two hostages. and it reveals a new development we heard from a great reporter yesterday who revealed this is a new tactic for al qaeda. somehow now they decided to go ahead and compete with isis. in terms of holding hostages, in terms of executing hostages going forward. can we speak about this? good for us for trying to rescue these guys. the european nations have a specific way of dealing with this. they pay the price. every single time they pay the r ransom. you are seeing this in syria. you have to understand there are repercussions to their act. and we do not sit bypassively. instead of sending a million dollars, we send seal team six.
and al qaeda realized isis was getting fame and recruitment. now it s open season on americans around the world. al qaeda is in rivalry with isis in the same type of tactics and you can be sure that al qaeda is going to be killing americans no matter where they are, not necessarily directedly al qaeda core but by al qaeda inspired people, like we saw just last week, a woman who was killed. and americans killed in sinai. like the israelis has been killed around the world. it seems that americans are going to be more at risk of being taken hostage. what can we do about this? well, americans and our alley, westerners all over. but we do what we continue to do. it s a little unusual to say, also, that, you know, well, this unsuccessful raid makes us a paper tiger. it doesn t make us a paper tiger. it s the reality of it.