taking hostages
1Hostages Trial — NOTOC The Hostages Trial (or, officially, The United States of America vs. Wilhelm List, et al. ) was held from 8 July, 1947 until 19 February, 1948 and was the seventh of the twelve trials for war crimes the U.S. authorities held in their… …
2hostages — In the mid 1980s, after the collapse of law and order, extremist Shi‘ite Muslims in Lebanon began taking Westerners prisoner in Beirut, including the Britons John McCarthy and Brian Keenan. As many as twenty six were at one time held hostage… …
3Foreign hostages in Iraq — Table of contents Key: (killed freed unknown) Coalition Australia (0 2 0) Bulgaria (2 0 0) Canada (1 6 1) Czech Republic (0 3 0) Denmark (1 0 0) Italy (4 6 0) Japan (2 3 0) …
4Foreign hostages in Afghanistan — Table of contents Key: (killed freed unknown) Bangladesh (0 8 0) Burma (0 1 0) Canada (0 1 0) Denmark (0 1 0) France (0 8 0) Germany (2 4 0) India (2 3 0) Iran (0 12 0) Iraq (0 1 0) Italy (0 3 0) Japan (3 1 0) Macedonia (4 1 0) …
5Foreign hostages in Somalia — Kidnapping and hostage taking has become a common occurrence in Somalia since 2008, while the country is still facing civil war (see: War in Somalia (2006–present). For crews kidnapped off the Somali coast, see Piracy in Somalia The following is… …
6The Three Hostages — infobox Book | name = The Three Hostages orig title = translator = author = John Buchan cover artist = country = Scotland, England language = English series = Richard Hannay genre = Thriller publisher = Hodder Stoughton release date = 1924 media… …
7Ouvéa cave hostage taking — The Ouvéa cave hostage taking was an event occurring from April 22, 1988 to May 5, 1988 in which members of the separatist group the National Union for Independence Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front took 27 including a French gendarme …
8The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974 film) — Infobox Film | name = The Taking of Pelham One Two Three caption = original film poster by Mort Künstler director = Joseph Sargent producer = Edgar J. Scherick writer = John Godey (novel) Peter Stone starring = Walter Matthau Jerry Stiller Martin …
9Ennepetal hostage taking — On April 12, 2005, at around 1 p.m. local time, a 50 year old Iranian national seized a regular bus with a number of school children in the town of Ennepetal, Germany in the state of North Rhine Westphalia.The kidnapper entered the bus at a bus… …
10Hostage — A hostage is a person or entity which is held by a captor. The original definition meant that this was handed over by one of two belligerent parties to the other or seized as security for the carrying out of an agreement, or as a preventive… …
