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Nigerian military free 19 oil delta hostages: sources (Reuters)

November 17th, 2010

Reuters - Nigeria’s military freed 19 hostages including foreigners being held by militants in the Niger Delta oil region in a land, air and sea operation on Wednesday, security sources…

At least 7 hostages killed in rescue from Iraq church (Reuters)

October 31st, 2010

Iraqi security forces and wellwishers surround an Iraqi youth after his release from a hostage situation at the Sayidat al-Najat church following a rescue operation by Iraqi and US forces in Baghdad's Karrada neighbourhood. Seven Christians were killed and at least 13 wounded in an operation involving US and Iraqi forces to end a hostage drama at a church in the Iraqi capital, officials said.(AFP/Khalil al-Murshidi)Reuters - At least seven Iraqi Catholics died on Sunday when police stormed a Baghdad church where gunmen were holding dozens of parishioners hostage, threatening to kill them if al…

Al-Qaida group releases tape of French hostages (AP)

September 30th, 2010

This image taken from video and provided by U.S.-based SITE Intelligence Group Thursday Sept. 30, 2010 shows the first images of a group of foreign hostages working for a French energy company who were seized in Niger two weeks ago by an al-Qaida offshoot, according to the group that monitors terrorism. The hostages were grabbed in the middle of the night on Sept. 16 from their guarded villas in the uranium mining town of Arlit in Niger where they worked for French nuclear giant Areva. Five are French citizens, the other two are from Togo and Madagascar. (AP Photo/SITE) ** EDITORIAL USE ONLY **AP - A tape released Thursday on a jihadist forum shows the first images of a group of hostages including five French citizens since they were seized two weeks ago…

Philippines says police might have shot hostages (AP)

September 9th, 2010

Members of the special weapons and tactics (SWAT) team take their position as a body lies on the steps of the bus during the assault on a bus with tourists being held hostage at Quirino Grandstand in Manila August 23, 2010. Philippine police commandos crouched around a bus where a sacked former policeman was holding 15 Hong Kong tourists hostage in Manila on Monday and shots were heard at the scene, TV pictures and a Reuters witness said. REUTERS/ Erik de Castro (PHILIPPINES - Tags: CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST)AP - Investigators in the Phillipines say some victims in a botched hostage rescue may have been hit by police fire.


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Freed al Qaeda hostages arrive back in Spain (Reuters)

August 24th, 2010

A general view shows the road between Nouahibou and Nouakchott, where three Spanish aid workers were abducted from, December 3, 2009. REUTERS/Rafael MarchanteReuters - Two Spanish aid workers held by al Qaeda’s North African wing returned to Barcelona after being freed on Monday, ending a kidnapping that lasted nearly nine months.


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Spanish hostages freed by al-Qaida arrive in Spain (AP)

August 23rd, 2010

Spanish aid worker, Roque Pascual , left, Spanish Secretary of State, Soraya Rodriguez, 2nd left, Albert Vilalta, 3rd left, and Spanish Ambassador, Cristina Diaz Fernandez-Gil , talk after leaving a helicopter in the grounds of the presidential palace in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso after their release Monday, Aug. 23, 2010. The two Spanish aid workers kidnapped almost nine months ago by an al-Qaida affiliate were freed Monday in Mali after a multi-million-dollar ransom was reportedly paid — a sign of the terrorist group's growing sophistication in bankrolling operations through kidnappings, experts said Monday. Aid workers Roque Pascual and Albert Vilalta were abducted last November when their convoy of 4-by-4s was attacked by gunmen on a stretch of road in Mauritania. They were whisked away to Mali, whose northern half is now one of the many stretches of remote desert where al-Qaida of Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, has stretched its tentacles. (AP Photo/Brahima Ouedraogo)AP - Two Spanish aid workers kidnapped almost nine months ago by an al-Qaida affiliate arrived Tuesday in Barcelona after a multi-million-dollar ransom was reportedly paid for their freedom —…

Spanish hostages freed by al-Qaida-linked group (AP)

August 23rd, 2010

Spanish aid worker, Roque Pascual , left, Spanish Secretary of State, Soraya Rodriguez, 2nd left, Albert Vilalta, 3rd left, and Spanish Ambassador, Cristina Diaz Fernandez-Gil , talk after leaving a helicopter in the grounds of the presidential palace in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso after their release Monday, Aug. 23, 2010. The two Spanish aid workers kidnapped almost nine months ago by an al-Qaida affiliate were freed Monday in Mali after a multi-million-dollar ransom was reportedly paid — a sign of the terrorist group's growing sophistication in bankrolling operations through kidnappings, experts said Monday. Aid workers Roque Pascual and Albert Vilalta were abducted last November when their convoy of 4-by-4s was attacked by gunmen on a stretch of road in Mauritania. They were whisked away to Mali, whose northern half is now one of the many stretches of remote desert where al-Qaida of Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, has stretched its tentacles. (AP Photo/Brahima Ouedraogo)AP - Two Spanish aid workers kidnapped almost nine months ago by an al-Qaida affiliate were freed Monday in Mali after a multi-million-dollar ransom was reportedly paid — a sign…

Some hostages leave bus as police enter vehicle (AP)

August 23rd, 2010

A hostage walks away from the bus after being released during the hostage taking at Quirino Grandstand in Manila August 23, 2010. Two foreign tourists have been released from the bus being held by a heavily armed former policeman in central Manila, officials said on Monday. Radio station DZMM radio station said 25 foreign tourists, including some children, and three Filipinos were on the bus when the heavily-armed man boarded it in downtown Manila. REUTERS/ Erik de Castro (PHILIPPINES - Tags: CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST)AP - Philippine police have entered a bus after shots were heard from the hostage-taker of 15 Chinese tourists, and at least four of the hostages crawled out of the…

Palestinian who attacked Turkish Embassy captured (AP)

August 17th, 2010

An Israel border police officer holds his weapon as a paramedic rushes put of the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. A Palestinian took hostages in the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv Tuesday after shots were fired outside, Israeli police and a Foreign Ministry official said, in an incident that appeared to have only an indirect link to recent tensions between the two countries. (AP Photo / Ariel Schalit)AP - A Palestinian who broke into the Turkish Embassy in Israel trying to take hostages and demanding asylum was turned over to Israeli authorities late Tuesday, ending a tense…

Israel: Attacker holding hostages at Turk Embassy (AP)

August 17th, 2010

An Israel border police officer holds his weapon as a paramedic rushes put of the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. A Palestinian took hostages in the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv Tuesday after shots were fired outside, Israeli police and a Foreign Ministry official said, in an incident that appeared to have only an indirect link to recent tensions between the two countries. (AP Photo / Ariel Schalit)AP - A Palestinian took hostages in the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv Tuesday after shots were fired outside, Israeli police and a Foreign Ministry official said, in an incident…

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