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    Black September

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    Black September Black September is both the name of Jordan’s war on the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) in the early seventies and the name of Palestinian terrorist movement created in revenge of the aftermath of Palestinian losses of the war in Jordan. Black September was a movement created by a break away Palestinian faction of Fatah. Fatah Is a Palestinian political party and the largest faction of the PLO. In Palestinian politics it is a more liberal group on the left wing of the

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    Park hostage-taking incident” was the negative role of the Media played that added fuel to the shooting incident. Most of the major TV companies represented by their top news reporters‚ by communicating directly to the hostage-taker and by broadcasting the arrest of his brother‚ even though they know that a TV set was being used inside the bus‚ compromised and tied the hands of the negotiators to have the upper hand in the negotiation. The sight of his brother being arrested pushed the hostage-taker

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    March 27‚ 2014 The scene is set‚ the information at this time is incomplete. However‚ with the little information that has been received we can identify that this situation at the present time is a hostage situation. A hostage situation defined as “involves the taking of a person captive for instrumental or tangible reasons; the suspect needs the police or other authorities to meet specific demands (e.g.‚ ransom‚ transportation‚ money). In these events‚ the captive

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    on the battlefield to airing hostage torture videos‚ Al-Jazeera and other news channels are airing more graphic footage‚ and this has many negative effects on the viewing public. Terrorists make use of this extra publicity that these networks give them‚ to promote their message that they will kill if their demands are not met. Also children are adversely affected by the violence that is shown on television. Therefore‚ the media should ban the broadcasting of hostage torture videos because they help

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    by the symbolic character of target‚ or the horrific quality of what you do to a single person‚" Bulliet tells WebMD. "The point is that it isn’t what you do‚ but it’s how it’s covered that determines the effect." For example‚ Bulliet says the Iranian hostage crisis‚ which began in 1979 and lasted for 444 days‚ was actually one of the most harmless things that happened in the Middle

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    1972 Munich Olympics Video Reaction Paper The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre was the bloodiest hostage taking the world had yet seen. It was a devastating situation which no one was expecting‚ let alone prepared for. The Munich massacre will be remembered as the beginning of the new age of international terrorism. The terrorist hostage situation took place at the Olympics in Munich‚ Germany in 1972. This was to be the first time Germany will host the Olympic Games since World War II. At the

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    analysis of the Arizona Department of Correction’s Morey Unit hostage situation. This incident was very terrible in the United States history in escapes made from prisons. In Buckeye‚ Arizona at the Lewis Prison Correction facility in the Morey‚ on January 18‚ 2004‚ Ricky Wassenaar and Steven Coy made an attempt to escape from the unit by taking two correctional officers hostage and took over Morey’s unit tower‚ causing a 15-day hostage and standoff incident. The following discussion is an analysis

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    John Q movie This movie is about John Quincy Archibald (played by Denzel Washington) and his working class family who lived in Chicago. His son is diagnosed with cardiomegaly and he needs a heart transplant. He realized that his insurance does not cover the medical expenses and he decides to takes matter in his own hands. John and his wife Denise (played by Kimberly Elise) worked in factories‚ but the money they made was not enough. Denise had her car repossessed and John had to take her to work

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    as if through a glass of water. “Now!” Henriques shouted. The villagers sang jubilantly seeing the hostages hesitate and vacillate. The ground started to stop shaking as their numbers abated‚ but nevertheless the ground was vibrating slowly as still a whole division of them were charging. The antagonism in their blood increased every second. The singing grew louder and louder and as each hostage fell clumsily onto the ground‚ smiles became laughter’s of joy on the singer’s faces. Henriques knew

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    2:30 pm on Sunday‚ September 25 prisoners seized control of H7 the prison officers where taken hostage at gunpoint in order to prevent them from triggering an alarm One officer was stabbed with a craft knife‚ Another was knocked down by a blow to the back of the head. One officer who attempted to prevent the escape was shot in the head by Gerry Kelly‚ but survived. 2:50 pm on Sunday‚ September 25 prisoners were in total control of H7 without an alarm being raised dozen prisoners took

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