How the Hostage-Takers Wanted the World to See Them
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This is the harrowing scene inside tragic, sweltering School Number One in Beslan, as hundreds of Russian children watch masked terrorists turn their gym into a labyrinth of deadly explosives.
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With carefully scripted brutality, the  videotaped beheading of hostages in Iraq is a calculated  attempt to strike fear into the heart of the United States and  its allies.
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British hostage Ken Bigley's harrowing video appeal for his own life, represents a new tactic by Iraqi militants to swing public opinion against the occupation of Iraq.
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An eyewitness account of the vicious battle to retake the  Iraqi city
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While the US, Britain and Italy, whose citizens have been taken hostage, have refused to concede demands of hostage-takers, militant groups have sent out clear signals that they, too, mean business.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A weeping British hostage was shown pleading for help between the bars of a makeshift cage in a video that surfaced Wednesday, a sobering reminder of the grim reality for at least 18 foreign captives still held by Iraqi militants.    There is wide speculation that ransoms were paid for the freedom of a dozen hostages, including two Italian aid workers...
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MOSCOWâAfter the worst hostage-taking crisis of his presidency, when the southern Russian town of Beslan was soaked in the blood of its children, Vladimir Putin didn&#39;t dare present his condolences face to face.
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I am reminded of an event 93 years ago, in which Franz Ferdinand was shot, plummetting Europe into war. World War III is coming, and the flashpoint is the Islamic world. Much like Serbia in 1913, it is fragile and fragmented and there is a determination by a large focused interest group to see violence done in the name of their agenda. And, in the use of violence, they have successfully advanced their agenda.
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Three people believed to be the UN hostages seized by militants in Afghanistan have appeared in a video shown by Arabic TV Al-Jazeera.
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Arabic TV network Al-Jazeera Sunday aired video showing three UN election workers taken hostage in Afghanistan. In the video, the kidnappers demand for the release of prisoners in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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Former Guardian editor Peter Preston discusses the role of the media in covering the taking of hostages.
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Insurgents are now using unwitting kidnap victims as suicide bombers _ seizing them, booby-trapping their cars without their knowledge, then releasing them only to blow up the vehicles by remote control, the ...Comment
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The images coming out of the latest hostage crisis in Iraq - capped by dramatic video of British captive Kenneth Bigley begging for his life - have transfixed Britons, left governments looking helpless, and revived a classic dilemma about whether to negotiate with terrorists.
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THIS WEEK's terrifying school hostage incident in Russia -- already being called that country's 9/11 -- will have reverberations around the world.
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Besides hostage-takings by insurgent groups, many criminal gangs in Iraq have been kidnapping people for ransom.
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When a French hostage mentioned to Yemeni kidnappers this week that he needed his blood pressure medication, they retrieved it for him.
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The images coming out of the latest hostage crisis in Iraq &#151; capped by dramatic video of British captive Kenneth Bigley begging for his life &#151; have transfixed Britons, left governments looking helpless, and revived a classic dilemma about whether to negotiate with terrorists.