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Gunmen Kill Dozens in Grisly Iraq Hostage Siege

BAGHDAD -- Wearing military uniforms over explosives belts, gunmen held a local Iraqi government center hostage Tuesday in a grisly siege that ended with the deaths of at least 56 people, including three councilmen who were executed with gunshots to the head. The five-hour standoff in Tikrit, former dictator Saddam...

Georgia Police Probe Circumstances of Hostage Case

ATHENS, Ga. - Police said Saturday they are trying to determine how long a man charged in a police officer's slaying had been staying at an Athens apartment where he allegedly took nine hostages, and then agreed to surrender on the condition it was broadcast on live TV news. Jamie Hood, 33, was being held Saturday without...

Suspect in Ga. Officer's Slaying Surrenders on TV

ATHENS, Ga. -- Holding five hostages in an apartment surrounded by police, the suspect in the slaying of a Georgia police officer made an unusual request to negotiators - he wanted to surrender on live TV. Jamie Hood, 33, walked out of the apartment late Friday night shirtless and surrounded by five of the nine adults and...

NC Bank Standoff Ends; Police Kill Armed Suspect

CARY, N.C. -- A three-hour standoff at a North Carolina bank ended abruptly Thursday when police shot and killed the armed suspect after he led a hostage through the parking lot with a gun to her head. Television footage broadcast live during the dinner hour showed the man crumple to the ground after five officers fired...

France Says 2 Frenchmen Kidnapped in Niger Killed

PARIS -- Two French hostages kidnapped in the Niger capital were killed by their captors despite a rescue attempt by French forces, President Nicolas Sarkozy said in a statement Saturday. The hostages were found dead at the Niger-Mali border after French troops there clashed with the kidnappers, killing several of them, a...

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Man Dies In Explosion Following Kamloops Hostage-Taking

One man is dead following a hostage taking in Kamloops, B.C. on Thursday night that ended with an explosion that destroyed a family home.

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06/03/12 SAS launched rescue mission for British aid worker... Source: Telegraph - London - UK "On the other side, they were going to kill one of them to send a message. They wanted five prisoners released from Pul-e-Charkhi prison and they wanted a large ransom."
06/03/12 'Thank you for saving me': Moment British hostage... Source: Daily Mail - London - UK British aid worker Helen Johnston beamed with joy as her rescuers delivered her safely to Kabul.
06/03/12 Afghan official: Operation to rescue aid workers... Source: FOX News An intelligence official says NATO and Afghan forces launched an operation to rescue two female foreign aid workers and their two Afghan colleagues after learning the Taliban planned to kill one of the hostages.
06/03/12 How the British hostages were rescued in Afghanistan Source: Telegraph - London - UK Meanwhile the special forces began to plan for the worse case scenario and over the following 24 hours, started to reconnoitre a series of potential helicopter landing sites - not an easy task given the nature of the terrain, highly mountainous and thick with forest.
06/03/12 'Drone warrior' runs an assassination bureau (Last... Source: Fredericksburg.com - Fredericksburg VA --A very strange story, a 6,000-word front-page New York Times piece on how, every Tuesday, Barack Obama shuffles "baseball cards" with the pictures and bios of suspected terrorists from around the world and chooses who shall die by drone strike.

Background on hostage taking

A crisis develops when one or more terrorists or criminals hold people against their will and try to hold off the authorities by force, threatening to kill the hostages if provoked or attacked.

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