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It contrasts starkly with the extremism that grabs headlines when bombs are planted, hostages seized, or embassies attacked in Islam's name.
Equally important, our prisoners of war and hostages deserve to be returned to their families.
Indeed, he recently became involved in negotiations with Venezuela and Columbia to release the hostages held by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia or FARC.
The Scots and the people of Northern Ireland are hostages to a distinctly English feud that could do them serious damage.
Reagan brought the US hostages back from Iran.
After a three-month journey through the mountains, the British reached Magdala, released the hostages, and burned the capital to the ground.
Anything less would be utterly unacceptable to ordinary Russians traumatized by the body count of dead hostages in Moscow.
Ultimately, even if emerging economies manage to diversify their funding away from foreign currencies, they will remain hostages to US monetary-policy cycles.
Uribe’s status as one of Latin America’s historic leaders was assured even before the rescue of Betancourt and the other hostages.
But, in a way, the Russian soldiers there are already hostages – not least to the Kremlin’s bankrupt foreign policy.
Before the hostages were released, Taylor killed six soldiers and stole their weapons and cars.
After a long, delicate negotiating process, the hostages were finally set free, on the day of President Ronald Reagan’s inauguration.
An early sign was the failure of “Operation Eagle Claw” to rescue US hostages in Iran in 1980.
His “Democratic Security” policy now seems to have definitively turned the tables in the country’s fight against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), which have seen their leaders killed and their hostages freed.
The first and most tangible challenge is that Uribe – with popularity ratings of more than 90% following the rescue of 15 high-profile hostages, including former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, in early July – will be more tempted to run for a third term.
For more than six years, the government has resisted calls to negotiate with the FARC, rejecting the group’s requests for a demilitarized zone, dismissing overtures, and demanding the release of all hostages and a cease-fire as a precondition for talks.
It was only much later that the crowd came under police control and the hostages were set free.
Indeed, despite the powerlessness so vividly highlighted by the Islamic State’s beheading of two Japanese hostages, Japan has not adopted even one amendment to the “peace constitution” that the occupying American forces imposed on it in 1947.
With the Islamic State’s attempts to leverage the lives of two Japanese hostages, legislation to implement the reinterpretation is set to be submitted to the Diet.
Turkey’s ISIS CrisisISTANBUL – Following the recent safe return of 46 Turkish hostages held by the Islamic State, hopes were raised in the United States that Turkey would finally commit to joining the US-led coalition now fighting the group.
Dutch hostages were taken and threatened with execution.
We can only guess at the psychological motives of the men who murdered the editors and artists of Charlie Hebdo, or of the man who abducted hostages and killed four at a kosher supermarket.
Flights From FreedomLONDON – Among the most chilling developments in the rise of the Islamic State is that so many citizens of Western countries have joined the group’s ranks, becoming suicide bombers and beheading hostages.
Libya is in chaos and the source of dangerous Mediterranean voyages by desperate migrants, and one can also imagine the need to protect citizens or rescue hostages in the region.
Russian TV recently showed a bus shuttling from Grozny to Moscow, the very bus that brought to Moscow the 120 kilograms of explosives used in the siege of the Dubrovka theater where so many died in the attempt to rescue the hostages.
Although the Islamic State’s hostages have come from several countries, so far it has beheaded only those from the United States and the United Kingdom.
On the other hand, the Islamic State has released 15 hostages, including citizens of Italy, France, Switzerland, Denmark, and Spain.
Moreover, when Michael Foley, brother of James Foley, one of the hostages, received a ransom demand, the FBI warned him that under US law, to pay money to terrorists is a crime.
By contrast, for more than a decade several European governments have been willing to pay terrorists millions of euros for the release of their captive citizens, or have facilitated the payment of ransoms by relatives and friends of hostages.
In the end, the hostages were not released until minutes after Ronald Reagan was sworn in as successor to Carter, who had been severely weakened politically the crisis.
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