Toronto hostage-taker had violent past
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TORONTO - A man killed during an armed standoff with police Wednesday morning had a history of domestic violence, court documents reveal.
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A man on-the-run for 30 years is to tell of his role in the killing of undercover soldier Robert Nairac.
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A new report finds evidence that onetime police hero Jon Burge used violence against suspects
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A government panel exonerated a Canadian man of any ties to terrorism, four years after he was deported to Syria, where he was tortured.
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Andrew Piddingtonâs devastating re-enactment of events leading up to, including and immediately after the murder, is taken from interviews, depositions and court transcripts.
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LONDON - 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.    But the plight of the British construction worker and his two murdered American colleagues has also raised new concerns about terrorists' tremendous ability to set agendas in an Internet age that makes their messages - even in the form of shocking beheading videos - all but impossible to stop...
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TORONTO -- Canada's top law enforcement agency has been shaken by the aftershocks of its role in the abduction of a Canadian Muslim in 2002, when U.S. agents transported the man from New York for interrogation under torture in Syria.
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This is how a forensic psychiatrist described the dynamics likely playing out in the heads of the three key players in yesterday&#39;s hostage taking outside Union Station.
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Tragic, despicable, inhumane, cowardly, barbaric, evil, and astonishing -- the deaths of a hundred or more people including children in a siege in Russia sparked strong words for the hostage-takers from world leaders, including Canadian Prime Minister, Paul Martin.
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The first night after he was snatched in Gaza nearly four months ago, BBC reporter Alan Johnston feared he was about to die. The kidnappers' masked leader appeared in the doorway, and moments later the prisoner was handcuffed, hooded and taken outside.
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Every two decades, it seems, the Middle East embroils Jacques Chirac in a particularly agonizing way. In the mid-1980s, he was prime minister as France wrestled with the kidnapping in Lebanon of several French
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A public inquiry clears a Canadian citizen, who says he was tortured in Syria, of having links to al-Qaeda.
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TORONTO -- An armed hostage-taking at Toronto&#39;s busy Union Station ended just before 9 am with a man being shot dead by a police sharpshooter, leaving the hostage shaken but unharmed and the normally bustling area eerily quiet.
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British hostage Kenneth Bigleyâs life was tonight in the blood stained hands of a terrorist who has revelled in severing the heads off two other captives.
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A Canadian terror suspect was shot twice in the back by U.S. forces during a 2002 firefight in Afghanistan after he allegedly killed an American commando, according to a U.S. fighter's eyewitness account revealed Monday.
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Relatives of a man who murdered a family of four testified Friday that his childhood was filled with abuse, but jurors deciding whether he should be executed also heard a witness describe being stabbed in his mouth, face and neck in another merciless attack the defendant confessed to.
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Mirza Tahir Hussain, the British man released from a Pakistani jail after spending 18 years on death row, spoke of the beatings and intimidation he experienced while in prison, in an interview published in The ...Comment