Speaking in New York, where he is attending the UN General Assembly, Mr Fabius told reporters: "We will do everything we can to liberate hostages... but a terrorist group cannot change France's position".
"If you have examples of hostages liberated by military force, with hostages who emerge alive, I don't".
That money was to be used to help in liberating the hostages.
A week ago groups of protesters first tried to "liberate" the "hostages" from their loft.
He didn't.Hard though it is to believe, last week's debacle in the desert could have been worse: the American mission to liberate the hostages could have gone wrong at a later stage, possibly when hundreds of Iranians had been killed or wounded.
As military assistant to Reagan's defense secretary, Caspar Weinberger, for example, he acquiesced in a White House scheme to sell missiles to Iran in the hope of liberating American hostages; his conduct brought him a mild rebuke from the independent counsel -- and a promotion.
"Algeria's not a country that would feel comfortable relying on foreign security forces to help liberate the hostages, and that's because of this deep-seated feeling that there should be no foreign military presence in the country," said Robert Parks, director of the Centre for North African Studies in Algeria.
Snake must liberate two hostages, the head of DARPA and the president of a major arms manufacturer, confront the terrorists, and stop them from launching a nuclear strike.
The Belgian troops were under only under orders to liberate the hostages, rather than push the Simbas out of the city, but the attack nevertheless "broke the back of the eastern insurrection, which never recovered".
AT&T may also be willing to pay something to liberate the hostage e-mail, this executive said.
