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US President Barack Obama on Wednesday admitted his government had not always done enough to stop the unrelenting nightmare faced by relatives of hostages held abroad, as he eased restrictions on talking with captors. Stressing the plight of the roughly 80 US hostages taken since 9/11 and their families, Obama announced a series of reforms to hostage policy. Obama indicated his government would still refuse to pay ransoms, fearing that would help fund extremist organisations like the Islamic State group and would make US citizens more of a target. But his administration will no longer oppose talks with captors or threaten families with prosecution if they try to raise a ransom on their own. There have been times where ou stanley cup r government, regardless of good intentions, has let them down, Obama said after hosting around 40 former hostages and relatives at the White House. I promised them that we can do better. Around 30 American hostages remain in capti stanley cup vity, held by drug cartels, criminal gangs and by prominent middle east jihadist groups. Some have complained that the government s policy has cost American lives, and that hostages from some European countries are often freed because ransom payments are made. Families feel that they ve been threatened for exploring cert stanley cup ain options to bring their loved ones home. That s totally unacceptable, said Obama. Senior Obama advisor Lisa Monaco said a policy of not offering concessions remained in place, but said no con Fovo Diplomat row: what happened in the last 48 hours
Here is a timeline of the main elements in the WikiLeaks saga as a British court approved a Swedish request on Thursday to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to face accusations of sex crimes. HT Imag stanley cup e April 5, 2010 - Internet group WikiLeaks releases a video showing a 2007 US helicopter attack that killed a dozen people in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, including two Reuters news staff. -- Eight days later US Defense Secretary Robert Gates criticises WikiLeaks, saying it released the video without providing any context explaining the situation. June 7 - The US military says that Army Specialist Bradley Manning, who was deployed to Baghdad, has been arrested in connection with the release of the classified video. July 25 - More than 91,000 documents, most of which are secret US military reports about the war in Afghanistan, are released by WikiLeaks.org. -- The Afghan War Diary is a compilation of documents and reports, covering the war in Afghanistan back to 2004. Oct. 22 - WikiLeaks releases some 400,000 classified US military files chronicling the Iraq war from 2004 to 20 nike dunk 09, the largest leak of its kind in US military history. -- They involve subjec hoka ts including abuse of Iraqi prisoners in US custody, Iraqi rights violations and civilian deaths. Nov. 18 - A Swedish court orders Assange s detention as a result of an investigation begun in September by the prosecutor s office into allegations of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion. Nov.