IS has cited Japanese aid as a reason for the hostage taking.

It's all about hostage taking and holding the hostages and negotiating.

Mr Santer described the British Prime Minister's non co operation policy as unjustified hostage taking.

Mohammad Shibin was convicted in April on 15 charges including piracy, hostage taking, kidnapping and conspiracy.

This tradition of hostage taking, so venerated and inviolate, may well come back to bite us.'

Mr Douw said this was only for a few hours and denied it amounted to hostage taking.

From this vantage point, the argument about saving Wall Street is essentially a question of hostage taking.

The six were allegedly part of a larger group of pirates who carried out the attack and hostage taking.

Delaney, a Democratic congressman, said he planned to introduce legislation soon to improve the U.S. government's response to hostage taking.

Mr Mohsen Abdel Hamid said the release followed a decree issued by the Association of Muslim Clerics condemning hostage taking.

Hamza pleaded not guilty to the 11 criminal counts that included hostage taking, providing material support to terrorists, and conspiracy charges.

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Muse is charged with piracy, conspiracy to seize a ship by force, conspiracy to commit hostage taking and related firearms offenses.

But hostage taking has happened in Lebanon since shortly after the end of the 1975-1990 civil war.

Terrorist actions may include bombings, hijackings, hostage taking, kidnappings and assassinations, said an advisory posted on the embassy Web site on Saturday.

And now, with 'Kinsa, social unrest had become hostage taking, blockades, exploding shuttles, shrieks unheard in the insulation of the Primary Refuge.