[shutupalready]

> Me : I think it should mean, you might be the next to be rescued.

But what specifically would you have done differently if you were a hostage and had received this message? Don't answer, "I'd keep up hope." "Not losing hope" is not an action.

The message has no particular call to action. That's my main point. My second point is that even if you named some specific action you'd take, someone else would have had a different idea because it's so vague.

A compassionate message could mean the world to a hostage. That's true. But a compassionate message and a useful message are not the same thing.

[iamcreasy]

As far as I understand, this messages was used in conjunction with Operation Chameleon. On it's own this message wasn't supposed to do anything, but it had to be discrete because this operation was clandestine.

The goal was to give them hope. That's the point. To let them know that there is help on the way, but there in't no accurate account by how far.

The `action` here is the Operation Chameleon, which is a secret.