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Westernize the Black Sea RegionThe bloody end to the schoolhouse hostage crisis in North Ossetia, and recent clashes in Georgia between government troops and separatist forces, have put the troubled Black Sea region on the front pages of newspapers once again.
As John Limbert, the erudite Iran scholar and retired US diplomat (taken hostage in Iran for 444 days) once reflected on the 1979 Iranian revolution, “Our liberal-minded Iranian friends proved to be helpless in political turmoil....[T]hey could write biting editorials,” but lacked the stomach to “throw acid, beat up opponents, organize street gangs...and engage in the brutality that wins” in political uprisings.
East Asia's Historical ShacklesTOKYO – Diplomatic relationships in East Asia have long been held hostage by history.
So it would appear that it was the Iranians who blinked first, before the incident could spiral into a genuine 1979-style hostage crisis.
Already, Obama’s policy of engagement has led to the most bilateral interaction since the Iranian revolution and hostage crisis in 1979.
Iranians cannot forget the US-led coup that overthrew the nationalist Mohammad Mossadegh six decades ago, and Americans remain bitter about the invasion of the US embassy in Tehran in 1979, which resulted in more than 50 American diplomats and staff being held hostage for 444 days.
The Algerian TragedyEXETER – Commenting on the recent Algerian hostage crisis on an international news channel, one terrorism “expert” made a remarkable claim: “Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) was founded because of the so-called Arab Spring, after we abandoned our Libyan ally [Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi].”
Most of those named in connection with the recent hostage crisis had joined that faction following the split with the GIA.
After all, Western and other governments owe it to the families of the 39 foreign workers killed during the hostage crisis to find out if they could have been saved.
Hostage of an impossible coalition and of a settlement movement of free-lance fanatics, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s leadership is seriously compromised.
Iran, in turn, charges that America is stalling on settling cases at the Hague that would release hundreds of millions of dollars in Iranian assets frozen since the 1979-80 hostage ordeal.
As a result, the “nuclear hostage” relationship of the Cold War continued, capped in 2002 by the Strategic Offensive Reduction Treaty, which set the upper limit on warheads at 2,200 by 2012.
Countries with large current-account deficits (such as Turkey) will remain hostage to skittish market sentiment.
He's not yet a hostage of the bureaucracy, but he regularly loses major battles.
Yanukovych has become hostage to a situation that he created – and thus has done nothing to extricate himself from it.
Nasrallah’s power base is now a hostage of Hezbollah’s good behavior.
Obama’s handling of the Syrian crisis increasingly evokes Jimmy Carter’s handling of the Iranian hostage crisis 33 years ago, particularly the failed operation in 1980 to rescue the Americans abducted following the takeover of the US embassy in November 1979.
The mere threat could have held the Syrian government hostage.
Such a situation can make the central bank hostage to the government’s behavior.
In the Mediterranean Sea alone, 3,200 people have perished, and in the Andaman Sea, just east of the Bay of Bengal, thousands of migrants have been stranded on boats with nowhere to land, or have been held hostage by their traffickers.
A terrorist is holding several people hostage, and he asks you to deliver water and food to them.
But when the adviser believes his work will benefit those whom the leader effectively holds hostage, he has a duty not to withhold advice.
For six hours, politicians and employees were held at gunpoint; one hostage, Assembly President Julio Borges, described the siege as evidence of the country’s descent into complete “anarchy.”
But we do know that at least 30 men armed with AK47 rifles and grenades held India’s business and financial center hostage, targeting both Indians and foreigners, particularly Americans and British.
For 15 years, Turkmenistan was held hostage to the personality cult of former leader Saparmurat Niyazov, who styled himself Turkmenbashi (“father of the Turkmen”).
EU countries agreed to limit their fiscal deficits to 3% of GDP to ensure debt discipline under the euro, so that no country could use the new currency to take its neighbors hostage and force them into bailout operations.
But no matter, Greece was already in – and willing and able to take its fellow EU members hostage.
On a recent trip to Africa, I heard a harrowing story of a hospital where women and their newborns are routinely held hostage – often for months – until families can find the money to settle their bills.
During US President Jimmy Carter’s administration, when the Shah fell and the US embassy staff was held hostage for more than a year, the two sides were hopelessly divided.
Five years ago, Tsarukyan himself led his thugs in a break-in at our office, taking my staff hostage for several hours.
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