"It's a very complex proposition," requiring the stitching together of multiple streams of intelligence from various information collection ways, said Dane Egli, a former senior White House consultant for hostage policy under President Saint George W. Bush. "There's no one silver bullet."
To militant groups, hostages are an extremely valuable commodity and kidnappers make their captives' security a top priority, the officers said.
Egli said that opportunities to learn data from local inhabitants or interrogating detainees have been reduced as the united states has withdrawn troops and intelligence assets from iraq and afghanistan. Another obstacle is the expansion of safe havens and ungoverned spaces, from the Afghanistan-Pakistan border to yemen.
"Any time they have secured real estate ... it's harder for us to penetrate the (U.S. military) special forces for America to do a surprise mission" and attempt rescue, Egli said.
Sometimes there is virtually no data in the least. american journalist austin Tice disappeared in damascus in August 2012, and has not been detected from other than a short video that surfaced 5 weeks later.
U.S. officials have given Tice's family no indication they know where he is, a person familiar with things said on thursday.
(Additional reporting by Roberta Rampton and Julia Edwards. editing by Jason Szep and Stuart Grudgings)
To militant groups, hostages are an extremely valuable commodity and kidnappers make their captives' security a top priority, the officers said.
Egli said that opportunities to learn data from local inhabitants or interrogating detainees have been reduced as the united states has withdrawn troops and intelligence assets from iraq and afghanistan. Another obstacle is the expansion of safe havens and ungoverned spaces, from the Afghanistan-Pakistan border to yemen.
"Any time they have secured real estate ... it's harder for us to penetrate the (U.S. military) special forces for America to do a surprise mission" and attempt rescue, Egli said.
Sometimes there is virtually no data in the least. american journalist austin Tice disappeared in damascus in August 2012, and has not been detected from other than a short video that surfaced 5 weeks later.
U.S. officials have given Tice's family no indication they know where he is, a person familiar with things said on thursday.
(Additional reporting by Roberta Rampton and Julia Edwards. editing by Jason Szep and Stuart Grudgings)
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