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    U.S. Hostages Speak Out After Captivity in Colombia

    Jul 07, 2008 03:08 PM EST

    ... don't have any value.And don't tell us that you're not terrorists. Show us that you're not terrorists. Let those other hostages come home.KWAME HOLMAN: More than 700 hostages still are held by the FARC in Colombia.KEITH STANSELL, Former Hostage: To the government and ...

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    Colombian Defense Chief Describes Risks, Planning for Hostage Rescue

    Jul 03, 2008 10:25 PM EST

    ... Keith Stansell. They'd been held for more than five years. Eleven Colombian soldiers were also rescued, but the FARC still holds more than 700 hostages. GEORGE GONSALVES, Father of Freed Hostage: What a way to celebrate the Fourth of July. It's just -- this is the best. TOM BEARDEN ...

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    Betancourt, U.S. Hostages Freed From Colombian Rebels

    Jul 02, 2008 10:05 PM EST

    ... new FARC leader.As the hostages were boarding the helicopter, the FARC guards were either persuaded or they were overtaken -- persuaded to give up the hostages or they were overtaken.And bottom line was that the 15 hostages were released and then flown toward Bogota. They're supposed to arrive ...

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    Hostage Release Highlights Negotiations with Taliban

    Aug 29, 2007 10:40 PM EST

    ... General: I am pleased to hear the news, and I welcome the news that both the Korean government and Taliban representatives have agreed to release the remaining 19 hostages. It must have been a very difficult ordeal for those hostages, as well as the people of the Republic of Korea.

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    Iraqi Group Says Hostage Killed; Suicide Bomber Attacks Bus

    Dec 08, 2005 07:00 PM EST

    ... the United States failed to respond to its demand of the release of Iraqi prisoners, the AP reported. The statement, however, did not identify the hostage and provided no pictures or video proving the person had been killed. The U.S. Embassy said it had no information to confirm the ...

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    Bombings Kill Dozens of Iraqis; Hostage Freed

    Jun 15, 2005 07:00 PM EST

    ... cars in Baghdad. Thirteen bystanders were injured when the cars burst into flames at the scene. Meanwhile, Iraqi and U.S. troops found and released hostage Douglas Wood, 64, who had been held for 47 days in Baghdad. Wood, an Australian engineer from Alamo, Calif., said he was "extremely happy ...

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    Activist Killed in Car Blast; Iraqi Forces Search for Hostages

    Apr 18, 2005 05:20 PM EST

    ... Press. Meanwhile, Iraqi security forces raided Madain, a small farming town south of Baghdad, Monday but found little evidence that 150 Shiites were being held hostage as Shiite politicians had earlier reported. The politicians had said Sunni militants were threatening to kill the hostages unless the entire Shiite population left ...

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    U.S. Troops Fire on Car of Freed Hostage, Killing Italian

    Mar 04, 2005 10:45 PM EST

    ... which stopped the vehicle, killing one and wounding two others." Sgrena, who worked for the communist newspaper Il Manifesto, spent more than a month held hostage by insurgents in Iraq. She was last seen on Feb. 16 pleading with Italian leaders to pull their troops out of Iraq so she ...

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    Hostages Taken in Iraq; Dozens Killed in Separate Explosions

    Nov 01, 2004 10:00 PM EST

    An American, a Nepalese and four Iraqi guards were abducted at gunpoint from their Baghdad office Monday, following a weekend of violence that left dozens of Iraqis and U.S. Marines dead in separate explosions.

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    Hostage Taking in Iraq

    Sep 30, 2004 04:00 AM EST

    ... recruits and it's also a way of making the Jihadi groups much more important. So, for instance, on the Web site where the British hostage, this group it's called Tawhid with Jihad -- this group that kidnapped the two Americans and the Brit, on their Web site, they state ...