Iranian news accounts of Ayatollah Khamenei's warning said he issued it during a meeting with high school students, a few days before the commemoration of the anniversary of the hostage taking at the United States Embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4, 1979.
Ulrike Draesner's well-received novel Spiele, meanwhile, dealt with yet another aspect of 20th-century German history the hostage taking at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.
Sports stars and athletes were rarely targeted, though the hostage taking at the Munich Olympics in 1972, which resulted in the deaths of 11 Israeli athletes, arguably set the chilling standards for the next decade.
And now the Senate Republicans have aimed their political hostage taking at the historic nomination of Loretta Lynch to be our next attorney general.
The Platte Canyon High School hostage crisis was an incident of a hostage taking and shooting that occurred at Platte Canyon High School in Bailey, Colorado, on September 27, 2006.
Hours after Jimmy Carter left office and the more hawkish Ronald Reagan came in, Iran freed the hostages taken at the American Embassy.
And the bodies of two Filipino hostages taken at the resort were found outside the town, one of them beheaded.
Reports that 100 hostages taken at the @EODMofficial concert pic.twitter.com/LGtqN1j1wU.
I did a post on this image over two years ago, right after Mahmoud came to power... when his connection to the embassy hostage taking -- at least, as a front line participant -- was debunked.
Amedy Coulibaly, their accomplice who killed four in a hostage-taking at a kosher supermarket, had also been convicted of a plot to free a terrorist from prison.
The play is inspired by the killing of five girls in a hostage-taking at an Amish school in Lancaster County, Pa., in October 2006, yet beyond a few facts drawn from the incident, it is fictional; the characters are imagined by Ms. Dickey.
