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From the embassy bombings and hostage taking in Lebanon during the early 1980's to the Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia in 1996, Washington's response to evidence that Tehran was sponsoring violence against American interests has been marked by deep ambivalence and contorted internal debates among several generations of policy makers.
In July a British jury sentenced a former Afghan commander living in Great Britain to 20 years in a British prison for torture and hostage taking in Afghanistan during the Taliban rule.
Women adorned in billowy black robes and strapped with explosives made up 19 of the 41 captors in the October 2002 hostage taking in the Moscow theater, which ended when Russian special services released a sleep-inducing gas into the building.
A day before the attack, Iraqi intelligence sent dispatches to France, Iran, Russia and other coalition states, warning of an ISIS threat "through bombings or assassinations or hostage taking in the coming days". .
Critics also say he has bungled a mass hostage taking in the same region.
According to the International Maritime Bureau Piracy Reporting Centre there were more hijacked vessels and hostages taken in 2008 than in any other year since the PRC began reporting on worldwide piracy statistics in 1992.
The men's sudden disappearance and subsequent difficulty in tracing them fits a pattern of hostage taking in Baghdad and southern Iraq over the past nine years.
Yun (2009) employed SCP and script theory in a case study of hostage taking in Afghanistan, concluding that: (1) the authorities need to deny the hostage takers gains through negotiation, and (2) the launching of military or law enforcement operations to disrupt the hostage situation might deter future hostage takers (Yun 2009).
Mr. Basayev claimed responsibility for the Moscow hostage taking in a statement posted on a Chechen Web site on Nov. 1.
- In Mali, soldiers from Chad reportedly killed both Mokhtar Belmokhtar (al Qaeda commander who masterminded a mass hostage taking in Algeria last January) and Abdelhamid Abou Zeid (second-in-command of al Qaeda of the forces in the area).
Hostages taken in the porous border regions have been executed or ransomed.
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