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unusual facts about hostage taking



Platte Canyon High School hostage crisis

The Platte Canyon High School hostage crisis was an incident of a hostage taking and shooting that occurred at Platte Canyon High School in Bailey, Colorado, on September 27, 2006.


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A Captain's Duty

Published by Hyperion on April 6, 2010 (and on audio by Tantor), it tells the story of Phillips' capture and hostage-taking by Somali pirates in April 2009.

Battle of Solway Moss

However, a modern historian Marcus Merriman sees the battle and hostage-taking more as the culmination of James V's war rather than the beginning of Henry VIII's Rough Wooing.

Bruce Kirkby

1999: Blue Nile Gorge; Forty five day descent of Ethiopia’s Blue Nile Gorge by raft as part of National Geographic Expedition; marked by gunfights, hostage taking and crocodile attacks.

Jane Corbin

She has specialised in making films about al Qaeda since 1998 when she was one of the first reporters to identify the threat from Osama bin Laden in 'Death to America' She covered the hunt for Bin Laden in Afghanistan and Pakistan and made a one hour documentary for BBC1, 'Hostage' on al Qaeda's tactics of hostage taking in Iraq.

Slovene Lands in World War II

To suppress the mounting resistance by the Slovene Partisans, Mario Roatta adopted draconian measures of summary executions, hostage-taking, reprisals, internments, and the burning of houses and whole villages.