One ex-hostage, Rainer Bracht, said the Foreign Ministry had asked him to pay $2,680.
In the end, her reasons for writing were the same as any writer's, ex-hostage or otherwise: "I wanted to create a book that would resonate with people's hearts".
A10 Iran Told to Pay Ex-Hostage A federal judge ordered Iran to pay $341 million in damages to Terry Anderson and his family for their pain and suffering during his nearly seven years as a hostage in Lebanon.
* Hostage says US tried to kill her * IHT: Ex-hostage voices her suspicions BLUNKETT NOT FATHER OF QUINN BABY So David Blunkett is not the father of Kimberley Quinn's new baby boy, Lorcan.
He finds no absolute proof, yet he clearly believes ex-hostages' allegations that the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was one of the hostage-takers.
"3 Decades Later, Ex-Hostages Press On for Damages From Iran" (news article, April 13) included an astonishing State Department statement: "The United States agreed in the Algiers Accords to bar claims by the former hostages against Iran from U.S. courts.
A3 Ex-Hostages Heading Home A chartered aircraft took off from a British air base, flying more than 70 former hostages from last week's airliner hijacking back home to Afghanistan, witnesses said.
A vigil outside the US Embassy in London today marked the first time Aamer, who was released last October after 13 years of confinement at Gitmo, had met in public with four fellow ex-detainees — or, as he put it, "ex-hostages".
While the first two concerned first his daughter then his ex-wife getting held hostage, this time round the focus is squarely on his ex-CIA character Bryan Mills, who is framed for murder.
He's called to a suburban home where a heavily armed white male in his forties is holding his ex-wife and children hostage.
The following month Quanta Nashall Chandler was killed by her ex-boyfriend following a nine-hour hostage situation in her house.
