'Hostage-taker' interviewed on TV
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Russian state TV airs an interview with an alleged hostage-taker, as two days of national mourning begin.
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They kneel before the camera. They are rigid with fear. Or they are crying, clearly unhinged, begging for their lives. They are hostages, flanked by masked men who carry swords or AK-47s -- the grim reapers of this age of televised terror.
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Iraq News, KABUL, A British freelance cameraman said yesterday he was detained by Afghan authorities for his role in the release of three UN hostages and came under pressure to sign a statement saying he was part of the kidnap gang.
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The images coming out of the latest hostage crisis in Iraq - capped by dramatic video of British captive Kenneth Bigley begging for his life - have transfixed Britons, left governments looking helpless, and revived a classic dilemma about whether to negotiate with terrorists.
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A man Al Arabiya television said was negotiating the release of two French journalists held hostage in Iraq said on Tuesday he met the two Frenchmen and that an agreement had been reached to free them soon.
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British hostage Ken Bigley's harrowing video appeal for his own life, represents a new tactic by Iraqi militants to swing public opinion against the occupation of Iraq.
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The Arab television station Al-Jazeera has broadcast a videotape purportedly showing a British and two American hostages being held in Iraq by a militant group led by a suspected ally of the al-Qaida terror network, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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A former BBC cameraman has been questioned by secret police in Kabul about his role in negotiating the release of three kidnapped UN workers.
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Saying he was being treated well, BBC reporter Alan Johnston appeared for the first time since his abduction in March in a video tape issued by his captors that was delivered to a Palestinian news agency in Gaza on Friday.
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A Kabul-based British hotelier and former BBC cameraman says that he acted as a go-between when a Â£830,000 ransom was offered to secure the release of three UN workers kidnapped in Afghanistan.
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Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist who was kidnapped and held by an extremist group in Gaza for nearly four months, recounted his "dark education" in a radio programme set to be aired Thursday.
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Captors release film of BBC journalist wearing what he says is an explosives belt.
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DOHA : A Polish woman held hostage by a militant group in Iraq was shown in a video on Al-Jazeera TV on Saturday night pleading for the withdrawal of Polish troops from the country and the release of women prisoners to save her life.
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A TV reporter abducted in Gaza in March was released early Wednesday. BBC correspondent Alan Johnston told CNN: "I am so glad to be free." He described his ordeal as "a nightmare."
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The first TV interview with Austrian teenager Natascha Kampusch, held captive for eight years, is to be aired.
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Dramatic images of life inside the gym during the hostage-taking at middle school 1 in Beslan were shown last night by the Russian television station NTV for the first time.
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THE pan-Arab television network Al-Jazeera broadcast footage today of a Jordanian truck driver taken hostage in Iraq. The footage showed three masked men standing behind the kneeling hostage, who held his passport in front of him.