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Filipino Gunmen Take 15 Hostages, Send 2 for Food
By not in system - AOL NewsMANILA, Philippines -- Armed tribesmen who kidnapped 15 people, mostly teachers, in the southern Philippines sent two of the captives Sunday to get food and water and threatened to harm the remaining hostages if they did not return, police said. On Friday, five Manobo tribesmen abducted the 15 people, who were walking along a road from graduation ceremonies at three schools, and took them at gunpoint to a forested area of Prosperidad town in southeastern Agusan del Sur province, officials said. It is the latest hostage crisis to grip the Philippines in recent years. A hostage-taking of a ...
Death Toll Hits 57 in Iraqi Hostage Siege
By not in system - AOL NewsBAGHDAD -- The death toll for a grisly hostage situation at a government building in northern Iraq continued to rise Wednesday as grieving families buried the victims and Iraqi officials questioned how it could have happened. Gunmen wearing explosives belts under military uniforms charged into the provincial council building in Tikrit, north of Baghdad, Tuesday afternoon, shooting hostages execution-style, and spraying bullets and grenades throughout the building during the five-hour standoff. Dr. Raied Ibrahim, the health director for Salahuddin province where the attack took place, said 57 ...
Gunmen Kill Dozens in Grisly Iraq Hostage Siege
By not in system - AOL NewsBAGHDAD -- Wearing military uniforms over explosives belts, gunmen held a local Iraqi government center hostage Tuesday in a grisly siege that ended with the deaths of at least 56 people, including three councilmen who were executed with gunshots to the head. The five-hour standoff in Tikrit, former dictator Saddam Hussein's home town, ended only when the attackers blew themselves up in one of the bloodiest days in Iraqi this year. First they set fire to the bodies of the three slain Salahuddin province councilmen in a brutal, defiant show of how insurgents still render Iraq unstable - even ...
Georgia Police Probe Circumstances of Hostage Case
By not in system - AOL NewsATHENS, Ga. - Police said Saturday they are trying to determine how long a man charged in a police officer's slaying had been staying at an Athens apartment where he allegedly took nine hostages, and then agreed to surrender on the condition it was broadcast on live TV news. Jamie Hood, 33, was being held Saturday without bond on murder and other charges at the Hall County jail. He is charged with fatally shooting Athens-Clarke County police officer Elmer "Buddy" Christian and wounding another officer on Tuesday. Athens police Capt. Clarence Holeman said Saturday evening that ...
Pirate Kidnappings Hit Record High in 2010
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsPirates took a record 1,181 hostages in 2010 as ship hijackings increased off the coast of Somalia, a maritime watchdog organization reported today. Attackers seized 53 ships last year -- all but four off Somalia -- according to the International Maritime Bureau's piracy reporting center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Across the world, there were 445 pirate attacks on ships last year, a 10 percent rise over 2009 and the fourth successive year that attacks increased. "These figures for the number of hostages and vessels taken are the highest we have ever seen," Pottengal Mukundan, director of the ...
Teen Arrested After Taking Hostages at French School
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PARIS (Dec. 13) -- Masked French gendarmes detained a 17-year-old who took a class full of preschoolers hostage Monday, releasing all the children safely after hours of tense negotiations that drew nationwide attention. "The hostage-taking is over," Jean-Marc Magda, aide to the mayor of the eastern French city of Besancon, told The Associated Press by telephone. All 20 children who had been taken hostage and their teacher were released safely, he said. The hostage-taker was detained, and remained inside the school with officers from a specialist gendarme force brought in to deal with the ...
Commando Raid Frees 19 Hostages in Nigeria
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(Nov. 18) -- Nigerian commandos have rescued 19 hostages in an assault the military says is a turning point in how the government deals with insurgents who have been kidnapping workers and blowing up pipelines in one of the world's richest oil regions. According to military officials, no one was killed in the raid Wednesday and no ransom was paid for the hostages, believed to have been abducted in three recent attacks. The successful raid seemed certain to boost the political fortunes of President Goodluck Jonathan, a marine biologist who took over after Umar Yar'Adua died in May, The ...
19 Chinese Sailors Released by Somali Pirates
By Deborah Hastings - AOL News(Nov. 11) -- Nineteen Chinese sailors have returned to their country after being held hostage by Somali pirates for 135 days and fed nothing but potatoes. The sailors, whose weekend release was negotiated by the Chinese and Singapore governments, arrived Wednesday at Shanghai's airport, according to the People's Daily website. The Singapore-registered cargo ship Golden Blessing was seized in June off the coast of Somalia in the Gulf of Aden. The 14,445-ton chemical cargo ship was bound for India after sailing from Saudi Arabia, China Daily reported. After being freed, the sailors were given ...
Bank Standoff in Fla. Ends; Suspected Bomb Remains Inside
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsUpdate: The Associated Press reports that a suspected bomb has been removed from a bank teller's body and remains inside the Florida bank where authorities are attempting to defuse it. The teller was reportedly kidnapped early this morning by three suspects who strapped the bomb to his chest as part of a plan to rob the bank. According to FBI spokeswoman Judy Orihuela, the suspects used the bomb-strapped teller to rob an undetermined sum of money from the bank and later fled the scene in a stolen red Ford Mustang. (Sept. 24) -- Bomb squad officials and police responded this morning to reports ...
Betancourt's Memoir Released Amid Controversy
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(Sept. 23) -- The release of a memoir written by Ingrid Betancourt about her six years in captivity in the Colombian jungle is being overshadowed by a lawsuit from her estranged husband, fury from a fellow captive -- and controversy over a multimillion-dollar judgment she demanded from Colombian officials. Betancourt's book, "Even Silence Has an End," which Le Monde called an "extraordinary adventure story," was released Tuesday in 14 countries around the world and translated into six languages. Guillermo Legaria, AFP / Getty Images In her book, former FARC hostage Ingrid Betancourt tells ...
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