Posts Tagged ‘hostagetaking’

US slams hostage-taking; Clinton to call Algeria

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration appeared to be in the dark Thursday about a hostage situation at a natural gas plant in Algeria, where Algerian forces launched a military assault to free dozens of foreign hostages, including an unknown number of Americans, held by Islamist militants. Tweet This Post

Four dead in hostage-taking in Aurora, Colorado

AURORA, Colo. (Reuters) – Four people, including the gunman, were dead following a hostage-taking incident on Saturday in Aurora, Colorado, the same town where a man shot dead 12 people and wounded 58 more in a movie theater last July, police told reporters. After nearly six hours of failed negotiations, police killed the gunman as [...]

McConnell on debt-ceiling hostage-taking: ‘We’ll be doing it all over’

Here’s the result of negotiating with hostage-takers: Tweet This Post