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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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.
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The Arab television station Al-Jazeera has broadcast a videotape purportedly showing a British and two American hostages being held in Iraq by a militant group led by a suspected ally of the al-Qaida terror network, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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Kidnappings by Muslim militants have driven non-Iraqis and those working with them into hiding to a degree not experienced since the nationwide uprising in April kept most foreigners locked inside their ...
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BRITISH hostage Kenneth Bigley was made to watch a video showing the beheading of one of his American friends before he begged Tony Blair to save his life.
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A NEW breed of kidnappers, described as &#39;strategic terrorists&#39;, in Iraq has led experts with experience of negotiating hostage releases to admit that lessons from the past may no longer apply.
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It has become all too familiar: the pale, shocked face of a hostage, crumpled in fear and despair, begging Prime Minister Tony Blair to concede to the captors&#39; demands and spare another Briton from the savagery of the executioner&#39;s sword.
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Hostage takers in Iraq have stepped up their kidnappings aimed at driving out foreign companies involved in reconstruction projects.
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The gunmen who kidnapped, beat and threatened to kill a Canadian woman in Iraq gave a list of demands -- including having her company renounce ties to the United States -- but the group was truly after money, her father and the owner of her company said
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For the first time, U.S. journalists saw evidence of the places where hostages may have been imprisoned or killed.
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VIENNA, Sept. 6 -- Natascha Kampusch, kidnapped as a bright-eyed 10-year-old and held for more than eight years, dreamed in her underground cell of chopping off her abductor's head with an ax and despaired as she read newspaper accounts of police dredging ponds for her corpse.
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In a scene eerily similar to the ongoing hostage-takings in Baghdad, three kidnapped United Nations election workers appeared in a new videotape aired Sunday on the al-Jazeera Arabic television station.
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Shortly after the U.S. Embassy in Tehran was seized on Nov. 4, 1979, several of the 52 American hostages were herded into a room festooned with skeletons, witches, ghosts and goblins. An Iranian, mystified by the images of death and evil, demanded an explanation. Joseph Hall, a military attache, described Halloween traditions and the embassy party that had taken place a few days earlier.
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Militants appear to have planned their seizure of a Russian school carefully, starting months earlier and sneaking weapons into the building in advance. Still, some of the raiders may not have known what they were getting into and were appalled to find they were holding children hostage.
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A council of Pakistani tribesmen sought on Tuesday to secure the release of two Chinese engineers taken hostage at the weekend by al Qaeda-linked militants near Pakistan&#39;s border with Afghanistan.
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Dramatic video taken by hostage-takers during the Beslan school siege is broadcast on Russian TV.
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THEY have been riven with terror as the world watches the plight of Ken Bigley. But yesterday his family came together to reach out to his captors with emotional pleas for mercy.