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The terrorists have said that they will begin killing the hostages at midnight if their demands are not metThe
hostages were finally liberated by the police after 3 days.
The terrorists have said that they will begin killing the
hostages at midnight if their demands are not met.
The Chicken-People of Jupiter are holding our astronauts
hostage, and will not release them until all the chicken restaurants on earth have been destroyed.
The bank manager and all the cashiers were taken
hostage by the bank robbers.
In 1976, an Israeli commando squad rescued over 100
hostages being held by Palestinian terrorists who had hijacked a French airliner.
Canadian logging companies say they are
hostages to the boycott which the environmental organization Greenpeace organized to protest clearcutting of old growth forest in this province.
The terrorists have been releasing their
hostages one by one, and appear to be ready to compromise.
The guerrillas have released the old and sick among the
hostages, but say that they will kill the others unless the government withdraws its troops from the area, and frees a number of political prisoners.
In 1979, fifty Americans were taken
hostage by student revolutionaries in Iran, and held for 444 days.
One of the police negotiators offered to take the place of a
hostage, but the terrorists refused.
The police don't want to attack the building where the terrorists are holding people, out of fear that some
hostages may be killed in the attempt to free them.
The murder of Israeli athletes taken
hostage during the Munich Olympics is the most terrible incident in the history of the Olympic Games.
In 1996, Chechen rebels seized some 2,000
hostages in a southern Russian town, and threatened to kill them if their demands were not met.
When one of his ship's boats was stolen, Captain Cook took a Hawaiian chief as
hostage until the boat was returned.
Discussion question: Should governments pay money to terrorists in order to obtain the release of hostages?
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