{"id":122905,"date":"2025-03-07T06:55:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T03:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fye-yemen.net\/?p=122905"},"modified":"2025-03-07T06:56:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T03:56:00","slug":"fbi-committed-to-bringing-home-american-hostages-held-in-foreign-countries-director-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fye-yemen.net\/?p=122905","title":{"rendered":"FBI committed to bringing home American hostages held in foreign countries, director says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Director of the Office of Foreign Affairs Kash Patel, during the raising of the Hostages and Illegal Contraband Flag at the State Department, Thursday, March 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Evan Vucci)<\/a><\/p>\n

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New York – Rashad Alkhader – Free Yemen Eye – \u00a0from-News \u00a0– AP<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The FBI will work to \u201czero out\u201d the population of Americans detained or held hostage in foreign countries, Director Kash Pate<\/span>l<\/a><\/span>said Thursday at a State Department ceremony honoring the hostage community and their families.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy singular promise to you in this community is that I will do everything as the director of the FBI to marshal the resources necessary to make sure that no other American family feels that pain,\u201d he said during an event to observe the second-ever U.S. Hostage and Wrongful Detainee Day.<\/p>\n

Patel spoke as the Trump administration is working to bring home Americans from multiple countries, including Russia<\/a><\/span> and Venezuela<\/a><\/span>. The government is also trying to secure the release of remaining American hostages held by Hamas<\/a><\/span>, with Adam Boehler, President Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a><\/span> pick to be special envoy for hostage affairs, leading direct talks with the militant group.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe still don\u2019t have everybody back,\u201d Patel said. \u201cWhatever lawful authorities we have at the FBI, we are going to give 24\/7, 365 days to make sure that we zero out this number and to make sure we prevent others from going into situations that you are now all too familiar with.<\/p>\n

The FBI houses a multiagency fusion cell that handles hostage cases involving Americans in foreign countries. The State Department, meanwhile, relies on a special presidential envoy \u2014 the position for which Boehler has been tapped \u2014 to negotiate the release of Americans who are wrongfully detained.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the president asked me if there was any job that I thought that I wanted to focus on,\u201d Boehler said Thursday, \u201cI told him that this was the only one I would look at because I think there\u2019s nothing more important for this country than for everyone to know that if they\u2019re abroad and they\u2019re taken, that the country has their back.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Trump administration last month returned home Marc Fogel<\/a><\/span>, an American schoolteacher jailed in Russia on drug charges, as part of a prisoner swap with Moscow.<\/p>\n

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