Topic: Hostage Situations
AP News | 2010-01-01 18:14:34
TV executive: Contact made with hostage-takers of 2 French journalists in Afghanistan
A television executive says authorities looking for two journalists in Afghanistan have made contact with the hostage takers, and the reporters are alive. France Televisions executive Paul Nahon says the information came from a colleague in Afghanistan of the journalists, who went missing with two or three Afghan ...
Reuters US Online Report World News | 2009-12-30 17:24:45
BAGHDAD/LONDON (Reuters) - British computer programer Peter Moore was released on Wednesday, two and a half years after being taken hostage by militants in Baghdad, officials said. "He is alive and in good health," Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said. Moore was handed to Iraqi authorities and then to the British embassy. Moore, who was working on contract in Baghdad ...
AP News | 2009-12-30 14:19:56
FILE - This video file image broadcast on Feb. 26, 2008 by Arab satellite news network purportedly shows Peter Moore who was taken hostage in May 2007 by militants disguised as Iraqi policemen. British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Wednesday Dec ...
AP News | 2009-12-24 22:35:18
Three bullet holes are shown in the window of the post office in Wytheville, Va. on Thursday, Dec. 24, 2009 where authorities say Warren Taylor took three people hostage for about eight hours before surrendering himself to authorities. One of ...
