Austrian Hostages in Mali 04-06-08
2008-06-04 10:57:00 Posted by sociolingo on June 4, 2008 Contributed by Christiane Lauschitzsky Here?s the latest update on the Austrian hostages: Austrian foreign minister Ursula Plassik went for a secret visit to Mali and Algeria to further negotiations on behalf of the two Austrian hostages being held. She supposedly met with the Malian President Amadou Toumani Touré and with other ...
[Interesting] Pirates release 30 hostages off the coast of Somalia, get awa
2008-04-12 12:12:00 News.com.au
France: Hostages held off Somalia freed
2008-04-11 14:43:00 PARIS (AP) - Pirates have freed 30 hostages who were held aboard a French tourist yacht off Somalia's coast for the past week, France's president said Friday.
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Playing Games with Hostages
2008-04-04 02:07:00 In Colombia, the narco “insurgent” group FARC is being decimated by a “carrot-stick” approach by the Colombian President Uribe. After years of a “talk nice and let’s negotiate” President, where FARC used truces and safe zones to regroup and fight again rather than to negotiate, the present government is hitting hard, but offering amnesty to those ...
Mali: Austrian hostages - update 28-03-08
2008-03-29 17:38:00 Posted by sociolingo on March 28, 2008 Source: AlertNet Tuareg politician says hostages not in Mali-report 28 Mar 2008 11:28:47 GMT <!? 28 Mar 2008 11:28:47 GMT ## for search indexer, do not remove ?> Source: Reuters VIENNA, March 28 (Reuters) - A Malian Tuareg politician said in an interview published on Friday ...
AQIM and the Austrian hostages in Africa
2008-03-24 19:29:00 I just wrote an article for the Middle East Times regarding Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb's (AQIM) new strategy. For an extensive coverage of AQIM, please visit The Croissant (available to subscribers only). To read the full article, please click here . Here is an excerpt: Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb - or AQIM - kidnapped two Austrian citizens in Tunisia on Feb. 22. The hostages are reportedly being held in northern Mali and Austrian authorities, with the help of Libya, are trying hard to obtain...(read more)
Qaeda says Austrian hostages have a week more
2008-03-18 11:29:00 Reuters -- An al Qaeda affiliate holding two captured Austrians has extended by one week, to midnight on Sunday, its deadline for Austria to meet its demands, according to an Internet posting monitored on Monday.Austria had said on Sunday the deadline had been extended for an unspecified time.The U.S.-based terrorism monitoring service SITE Institute said Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb posted the note to Jihadist forums.In a SITE translation, the group said the extension was "the final opportunity from the Mujahideen to absolve their responsibility before the families of the two hostages and the Austrian people, and to allow adequate time for the state of Austria to respond to the legitimate demands."
Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb Issues Demands Over Austrian Hostages
2008-03-13 22:22:00 The SITE Intelligence Group has released an announcement from Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb, in which it stipulates demands for the release of two Austrian tourists taken hostage this week. The demands provide three days for the Tunisian and Algerian governments to release prisoners. The message includes 6 images showing one of the hostages and a woman to his side with an obscured face and headscarf, who is likely the other hostage (see two such images below, courtesy of the SITE Intelligence Group)....(read more)
Colombian rebels free four hostages
2008-02-28 03:28:00 Four hostages held for more than six years by leftwing Colombian guerrillas have been released as part of a deal brokered by Hugo Chávez, Venezuela's president.
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Colombian hostages freed by Farc
2008-02-27 18:18:00 Four hostages held by Colombian left-wing Farc rebels have been released, Red Cross officials say. The hostages were handed over to a delegation sent from Venezuela to secure their freedom, in a deal brokered by President Hugo Chavez.
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Why One Day Your Kids Will Take Hostages
2008-02-06 12:58:00 Every parent dreams that one day their child will grow and become prosperous and powerful. And the best way to do that is sticking it to the little guy, right? Wrong! Give your child an early head start in to the successful career of ransom making! With this complete kit for only a dollar (USD $1) your child can have the swashbuckling adventure of holding your neighbor's cat for ransom! Long gone are the days of boys just leaving the girls out of their club, now it's simple and easy to steal little Susie's doll and hold it until all your little pirate's demands are met! Let's not forget it also includes a bottle/flask so if the demands aren't met, you can drown your sorrows away why you're being grounded. (Or in my parents house, lashed with the whip) Ok, so that sounds far fetched...but...personally I'm wondering exactly how a child would interact with such a toy. I'm sure that a kid would NEVER try to use this on their parents... This was actually found at US-bas...
Chavez urges world to help free remaining Colombia hostages - International
2008-01-15 02:44:00 Sydney Morning HeraldChavez urges world to help free remaining Colombia hostagesInternational Herald Tribune, France - 1 hour agoAP CARACAS, Venezuela: President Hugo Chavez on Monday urged world leaders to support efforts to negotiate the release of more rebel-held hostages, ...World news in brief San Jose Mercury Newsall 752 news articles
What about the other 700 hostages?
2008-01-11 15:40:00 Don't get me wrong, we are happy that ONLY 2 hostages were released by the FARC/Chavez/Castro coalition. What about the other 700 hostages? Why does mini-me chavez have to hold the granddaughter of Consuelo Gonzalez? A REAL humanitarian gesture would be to release ALL the hostages, for the FARC to stop terrorizing Colombia, and for mini-me and the apartheid dictatorship of Cuba to let their country be FREE!So it's up to mini-me and the FARC to play GOD and decide when THEY will release or take hostages?
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Family reunions for Farc hostages
2008-01-11 08:42:00 Ms Gonzalez urged Mr Chavez not to give up on the other hostagesTwo Colombian women hostages freed by the Farc rebel group have been reunited with their families at an airport near the Venezuelan capital, Caracas.
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Farc hands over female hostages
2008-01-11 00:14:00 Colombian guerillas released two prisoners on Thursday in a rescue mission organised by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, marking a breakthrough in a decades-long conflict.
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'Letters to Kim' the loopy left's idea to rescue hostages in North Korea
2008-01-11 00:00:00 Japan's largest labor union organization plans to bombard North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il with bilingual postcards demanding the return of Japanese captives the Stalinist state has abducted, union officials said.The Japanese Trade Union Confederation, known by its Japanese acronym of Rengo, has printed about 100,000 pamphlets and handed them out to members, as well as made the document available on its website, each of which contains a cut-out postcard urging Kim to "let our comr ...
Freed hostages land in Venezuela
2008-01-10 21:26:00 Ms Gonzalez (left) and Ms Rojas were kidnapped in 2001 and 2002Two women hostages freed by Colombian Farc rebels have arrived at Santo Domingo, a border town in Venezuela, on board military helicopters.
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Freed hostages back in Venezuela
2008-01-10 21:13:00 Ms Gonzalez (left) and Ms Rojas were kidnapped in 2001 and 2002Two women hostages freed by Colombian Farc rebels have arrived at Santo Domingo, a border town in Venezuela, on board military helicopters.
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Chavez: 2 Colombian Hostages Released
2008-01-10 18:33:00 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced that two hostages were freed by Colombian rebels Thursday, saying he spoke with the Colombian women by phone and they are being flown out of the jungle aboard Venezuelan helicopters.
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Colombian rebels 'free hostages'
2008-01-10 17:17:00 Two women hostages have been freed by Colombian rebels, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said. Mr Chavez, who was involved in efforts to mediate their release, made the announcement after speaking to them, Reuters news agency reported.
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Colombia waits for hostages to be freed(AP) (Latin America News)
2007-12-31 17:15:00 Colombia waits for hostages to be freed(AP)AP - Clara Gonzalez de Rojas said Monday she is ready to travel to meet her daughter and grandson whenever leftist rebels free them after years in captivity in the Colombian jungles. UN envoy to Haiti addresses sex abuse(AP)AP - Every unit in the U.N.'s 7,800-strong Haitian peacekeeping force has ...
Farc pledges to release three hostages
2007-12-19 04:33:00 Colombian rebels said on Tuesday they would release three hostages to Hugo Chávez, Venezuela's president, including an aide to former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt held captive since 2002.
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Hostages to fortune
2007-12-18 17:22:00 Day 15 of the Public Inquiry (PI) - amazing isn't it? it's been running for more than 6 months, yet it's only just managed to have a fortnight of 'sitting days'.The Highways Agency have managed to go one better than at the last hearing on November 6th. For now, they have managed to get the PI postponed indefinitely.Stephen Greenhalgh (for the Highways Agency) was unable to say when their evidence would be sufficiently in order to present to the PI, but promised to return 'after Easter' to give an update. The Inspector, John Watson, wanted him to be more specific:JW - There is an awful lot of time, I hope, after Easter 2008. How long after Easter 2008 do you have in mind?SG - I don't know at this stage, sir.For once, the Peak District National Park looked like they had some bite. Their Barrister, Mr Cannock, set out a perfectly reasonable possible order of events:The Highways Agency withdraw the Line OrdersThey produce new traffic forecastsThey introduce a consultation on a P...
Release Iraq hostages, says Brown
2007-12-09 16:43:00 Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called for the immediate release of five British hostages kidnapped in Iraq six months ago.
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Hostages' families issue message
2007-12-06 05:29:00 LONDON, England (CNN) -- The friends and families of five Britons kidnapped in Iraq have issued a message, telling their loved ones they are doing all they can to free them and urging the captors to let the men go.
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Man Has Two Hostages in Clinton Office in NH
2007-12-01 00:28:00 Here’s what we know. Around 1:00 PM a man walked in to the Clinton campaign office in Rochester, NH, a small town north of Portsmouth, near the Maine border. Reports aren’t consistent, but it seems there were possibly up to six people in the office. The man said he had a bomb, opened his coat, ...
Hostages taken at Clinton N.H. office
2007-11-30 23:09:00 ROCHESTER, N.H. - A man claiming to have a bomb walked in to Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign offices Friday and took hostages, police and witnesses said. The man initially released two hostages, a woman and a child.
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Clinton Hostages Released
2007-11-30 22:47:00 Moments ago, two hostages trapped inside the presidential Clinton campaign offices located in Rochester, New Hampshire were released! The kidnapper released the two moments ago, yet he remains inside still, armed, and police do not know if anyone else is still being held captive! Read more right here.
Clinton NH Headquarters Terrorized By Troy Stanley - Hostages Taken, Three
2007-11-30 22:44:00 In other updates, apparently Mr. Stanley went to a hardware store and got flares which he then used as fake explosive devices. Hostages Released From Clinton Office BEVERLEY WANG - AP | November 30, 2007 04:33 PM EST | ROCHESTER, N.H. ? A deranged man wearing what appeared to be a bomb strapped to his chest walked into a Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign office Friday, took several hostages and demanded to speak to the candidate during a nearly four-hour standoff, authorities said.The man released the last of the hostages as the afternoon wore on, but he remained in the office and was not immediately taken into custody.Clinton was in the Washington area at the time, and extra security precautions were taken to protect the former first lady, who still has a Secret Service detail, said a law-enforcement official, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the situation.The man entered the simple storefront offi...
Being held hostages at Hillary Clinton's office.
2007-11-30 22:13:00 What's going on! It's like every month, some person with a psychotic personality is zapped from auto space to spring up and do crazy stuff like killing people. I swear, it may be hidden messages sent out through radiowaves and televisions that are making people do these crazy things! So everyone should always be on your toes and look out for subliminal messages placed throughout the nation. On another note, have a Merry X'mas everyone! I know there's another month left but seriously, all the stores like Target & Kmart are putting those trees up like X'mas is tomorrow! So when X'mas is finally here, I don't know if I'll still be as excited as I used to when I don't see X'mas trees until a week before, you know?Two people held hostage at Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign office in Rochester, New Hampshire, have been freed. Neither hostage was harmed. "A young woman with a 6-month or 8-month-old infant came rushing into the store just in tears, and she said, 'You need to ...
Hostages at Clinton office 'free'
2007-11-30 22:06:00 Hostage negotiators have been sent to the sceneTwo people taken hostage at a Hillary Clinton campaign office in New Hampshire have been freed, reports say.
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Two hostages released at Clinton '08 office
2007-11-30 21:29:00 (CNN) -- Two people held hostage at Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign office in Rochester, New Hampshire, have been freed, CNN affiliate WMUR said Friday. Neither hostage was harmed, another affiliate, WCVB, reported on its Web site.
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Bomb-Strapped Man Takes Hostages at NH Clinton HQ
2007-11-30 20:29:00 Just in from the AP;A man claiming to have a bomb walked in to Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign offices Friday and took hostages, police and witnesses said.The man had what appeared to be a bomb strapped to himself, said Bill Shaheen, a top state campaign official. He took two hostages, both volunteers, and released others, Shaheen said.Witness Lettie Tzizik told television station WMUR of Manchester that she spoke to a woman shortly after she was released from the office by the suspect. The woman was carrying an infant, and crying."She said, 'You need to call 911. A man has just walked into the Clinton office, opened his coat and showed us a bomb strapped to his chest with duct tape," Tzizik said.Clinton was not in the New Hampshire office Friday. She was scheduled to give an address at the Democratic National Committee meeting in Vienna, Va., but it was unclear if the address would go forward as planned.Authorities were sending a tactical bomb unit to assist local police, and t...
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Breaking: Man Takes Hostages At Clinton Campaign Office
2007-11-30 20:06:00 WMUR 9, New Hampshire: ROCHESTER, N.H. — An armed man has taken two campaign workers hostage at the Hillary Clinton campaign office in Rochester, police said. Officials with the campaign confirmed that there were two workers taken hostage in the office on 28 North Main St.. A woman and her baby told workers at a neighboring business ...
Breaking News: Armed Man Takes Hostages At Clinton Campaign Headquarters In
2007-11-30 19:50:00 A man reported to have a bomb has taken hostages at Hillary Clinton’s campaign office in Rochester, New Hampshire. Police are on the scene. Updates to follow as information becomes available… [Update #1] Sen. Clinton is not in New Hampshire; she’s in DC at this time. Further reports indicate that the man claims to ...
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Breaking News: Hostages Taken At Clinton HQ in NH
2007-11-30 19:39:00 UPDATE: My sources tell me that the suspect is demanding to speak to Hillary Clinton. Clinton is in DC at this time. NH State Police confirm 1 child and 1 adult have been released. 2 adult hostages remain. There is a school in the area on lockdown and some businesses in the area are on lockdown. Police have confirmed ...
Video, Letters Shows U.S. Hostages Alive in Colombia
2007-11-30 12:53:00 Colombian officials on Friday revealed recently-seized videotapes of rebel-held hostages, among them three U.S. defense contractors and a former presidential candidate the first images in years providing evidence the captives may be alive.
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Calderon: Illegal Mexicans 'Symbolic Hostages' For US Presidential Candidat
2007-11-29 10:08:00 Mexican President Felipe Calderon has said that Mexican illegal aliens in the United States are "symbolic hostages" of US presidential candidates and that they are being used as a tool to get elected. Now this should come as no surprise...
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Another World Leader Puts Chavez in his place
2007-11-23 23:26:00 Earlier this year Columbian President Alvaro Uribe asked Hugo Chavez to act as mediator between the Columbian government and leftist guerrillas. Uribe asked Chavez to mediate, because the rebels have expressed admiration for the dictator of Venezuela. The hope was that Chavez could broker the release of hostages held by the guerrillas, or at the very ...
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Germany?s GDL Now Taking Hostages
2007-11-22 17:07:00 At knifepoint, I mean. Encouraged by the ruthless acts of sabotage their striking French counterparts have undertaken to show that they mean business, German GDL strikers have now resorted to hostage-taking in a desperate effort to push through their ridiculous demands. An unidentified, distorted-faced union member pulled a knife on a café employee at Berlin?s Hauptbahnhof ...
5 Contractors Taken Hostage in Iraq May Still Be Alive
2007-11-21 23:21:00 Five Western security contractors kidnapped a year ago in Iraq are still alive, according to their employer, Crescent Security. The four Americans and an Austrian colleague employed by Kuwait-based Crescent Security Group were among 14 people kidnapped Nov. 16, 2006, by men in Iraqi police uniforms who ambushed a convoy they were escorting near the southern ...
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Why do we have hostages in Columbia?
2007-11-10 20:47:00 Can't he handle a bunch of Columbian coke fiends by himself? This isn't another "Chavez is such a bad guy." post. I'd just like to ask why we have hostages in Columbia. Why aren't we sending Delta Force to extract them? It's not like the FARC are crack troops. More likely, they're troops on crack. Story here Hostages held by the FARC include three U.S. defense contractors whose plane crashed in the Colombian jungle in 2003 and Betancourt, a former Colombian presidential candidate who has been a captive for more than five years.
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5 hostages reach Bannu after release from N. Waziristan
2007-10-16 18:48:00 CNews BANNU: Five FC officials, who were kidnapped in North Waziristan, have reached Bannu after being released.According to sources, the five FC officials were released unconditionally from North Waziristan. They reached Bannu where they met DG-FC Abdul Nawaz and later, they went to their homes.The names of the released FC soldiers are: Noor Khannan, Dost Ali, Muzaffar Khan, Waheed Bahadur and Risal Rehman.In all, 22 FC officials were kidnapped on October 2 from Arocha check-post in North Waziristan.Powered by: Awaz apni Baat apni
Six hostages recovered in Ghotki
2007-10-07 19:00:00 GHOTKI: Six persons kidnapped 18 days ago in Ghotki have been recovered.According to SHO Ghotki Abdul Malik Bhutto, six persons were kidnapped 18 days ago near when they were coming from pilgrimage of the temple in Rohrki Sharif, near Tehsil Dharki.He told that after making negotiations with the dacoits in the area of Kaccha, the kidnapped persons have been recovered. They included two children Sham Lal and Ram Lal, Ladomal, Rajesh, Nanak Ram and driver Saeen Dino.Powered by: Awaz apni Baat apni
The President's Hostages
2007-09-17 17:21:00 The False Dilemma Over War Funding By Hank Edson Last week General David Petraeus gave his long awaited report on whether President Bush’s troop “surge” plan had achieved sufficient success to reverse the opinion of two thirds of Americans who want our troops brought home ASAP. President Bush then gave a national address in which he was expected to lay out a clear strategy for moving ahead in Iraq based on the success of the surge or for pulling out of Iraq based on its failure. Of course, what the American people got from the Bush administration was predictable based on past performance. What we got was an artfully vague choreography of political manipulation in which the big picture was hidden from view, a few positive details were exaggerated, change was postponed, and deception was employed by presenting a plan to “reduce” troop levels that merely brought the number of troops in Iraq back to the level they were before the “su...
The Taliban, the hostages and the South Korean spy master
2007-09-06 05:42:00 '); E-Mail Article Listen to Article Printer-Friendly 3-Column Format Translate Share Article Text Size SEOUL: South Korean intelligence agents negotiating with the Taliban last month to free 19 Korean hostages were struggling.
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Ex-hostages told to pay up
2007-09-03 14:45:00 South Korea has told 19 former hostages to pay some of the costs of their rescue from Afghanistan?s Taliban, amid increasing criticism of the ill-fated trip by the Christian aid workers.
News & Current Events :: South Koreans Turn Anger at Freed Hostages
2007-09-02 12:31:00 Author: Eric Subject: South Koreans Turn Anger at Freed HostagesPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 6:31 am (GMT -4) After Relief over Release, South Koreans Turn Anger at Freed Hostages SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's relief at the release of 19 countrymen held hostage by the Taliban gave way Friday to anger at the victims themselves, members of a Christian church who are being criticized for ignoring warnings against travel to Afghanistan. Critics said the group's actions forced their government into negotiations with the Islamic militants that damaged the country's international reputation. A day after the last hostages were let go, some of the church workers apologized for the trouble caused by their captivity, and a few collapsed when told the militants had slain two male colleagues. One said she secretly kept a diary on the lining of her pants. With the crisis over, South Koreans turned their focus to what went wrong, who is to blame and what lessons can be drawn ...
The Korean hostages: Part of missionary life no one mentions
2007-09-02 08:23:00 As I predicted last week, despite official denials by the Korean government, a Taliban spokesman admits they received 20 million dollars for those kidnapped Korean gals. (BBC PHOTO) And that same spokesman admits they needed the money, and are encouraged by the success of the kidnapping. Indeed, they now are planning to kidnap a lot more foreigners. One ...
Freed S Korean hostages 'sorry'
2007-09-02 08:22:00 South Korea has denied paying a ransom to secure the releaseNineteen South Korean Christian aid workers freed by the Taleban after six weeks in captivity have apologised to the nation for the trouble they caused.
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