Why isn't the IDF freeing Gilad Shalit?

On Monday morning, IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Ashkenazi told a group of fresh IDF recruits that the IDF knows where Gilad Shalit is and who is holding him. Speaking to new Armored Corps recruits at the IDF's Tel Hashomer base, Ashkenazi had said that "it is vital soldiers know that if something happens to them, there is someone who will make every effort bring them back.""We know that Gilad Schalit