International Business News - Hostages http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif An armed man in a jealous rage took 42 hostages in a Guatemala City call center on Monday and released them unharmed and turned himself to police after a five-hour standoff, police said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081007/guatemalan-man-takes-42-hostages-in-office.htm Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:39:08 EDT An attorney acknowledged Friday that it will be difficult to force Syria to pay more than $400 million to the families of two American men kidnapped and decapitated while working as civilian contractors in Iraq. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081003/judge-orders-syria-to-pay-families-of-hostages.htm Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:44:54 EDT The man who took hostages last year at one of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign offices was sentenced Tuesday to three years in jail, followed by mental health treatment. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/142839-clinton-hostages.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080930/clinton-office-hostage-taker-pleads-guilty.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080930/clinton-office-hostage-taker-pleads-guilty.htm Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:45:01 EDT Well over a million Colombians, clad in white and cheering "No more kidnapping," marked their independence day on Sunday with marches and concerts demanding freedom for hostages still held by leftist rebels. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080720/colombians-march-against-kidnappings.htm Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:14:10 EDT A Shiite militia that claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of five Britons in Iraq more than a year ago said one of its hostages committed suicide, a British newspaper reported. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080720/report-british-hostage-in-iraq-is-dead.htm Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:37:53 EDT A Shiite militia that claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of five Britons in Iraq more than a year ago said one of its hostages committed suicide, a British newspaper reported. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080719/report-uk-hostage-in-iraq-is-dead.htm Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:15:46 EDT Three Americans freed after being held more than five years by rebels in Colombia gave thanks Saturday and urged people to not forget other hostages who were left behind. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/90418-us-colombia-hostages.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080713/rescued-colombia-hostages-head-home-to-florida.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080713/rescued-colombia-hostages-head-home-to-florida.htm Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:44:51 EDT Three Americans freed after being held more than five years by rebels in Colombia gave thanks Saturday and urged people to not forget other hostages who were left behind. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080712/rescued-hostages-head-for-florida.htm Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:44:27 EDT Among the smiles and hugs shared by three American hostages freed last week from rebels in Colombia and their families, one of the men on Monday angrily denounced their captors as "terrorists with a capital 'T.'" http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080707/freed-us-hostage-calls-home-a-pleasure.htm Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:37:44 EDT Freed after years as rebel-held hostages, French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt and four Colombian police officers sent messages of hope in a radio broadcast Sunday to captives still detained in remote jungle camps. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/87109-colombia-hostages.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080706/freed-colombian-hostages-urge-hope.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080706/freed-colombian-hostages-urge-hope.htm Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:30:09 EDT The three American hostages rescued by Colombia's military said in their first public statement that they are doing fine and are thrilled to "return home to the country we love." http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/86733-aptopix-colombia-hostages.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080706/3-freed-us-hostages-give-thanks-for-their-rescue.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080706/3-freed-us-hostages-give-thanks-for-their-rescue.htm Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:08:28 EDT The three American hostages rescued by Colombia's military said in their first public statement that they are doing fine and are thrilled to "return home to the country we love." http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/86601-colombia-hostages.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080705/freed-hostages-colombian-fiancee-travels-to-texas.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080705/freed-hostages-colombian-fiancee-travels-to-texas.htm Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:40:15 EDT Military intelligence agents posing as aid workers and a film crew flew to the jungle aboard a white helicopter, staging a mock humanitarian mission that rebels were told would ferry their hostages to another camp for talks on a prisoner swap. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/86560-colombia-hostages.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080705/rescue-video-shows-duped-rebels-elated-hostages.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080705/rescue-video-shows-duped-rebels-elated-hostages.htm Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:47:56 EDT Back on U.S. soil, three American hostages rescued from Colombia rebels are now in the process of reintegrating into a society they've been absent from for more than five years. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/85574-colombia-us-hostages.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080704/military-freed-american-hostages-in-good-shape.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080704/military-freed-american-hostages-in-good-shape.htm Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:07:27 EDT Video taken during the rescue of 15 rebel hostages shows them filing grim-faced toward the helicopter that would fly them to safety, then hugging one another and crying with joy after they are aloft and realize they are free. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/86073-colombia-hostages.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080704/colombia-rescue-hinged-on-rebel-disarray-payback.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080704/colombia-rescue-hinged-on-rebel-disarray-payback.htm Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:21:33 EDT Some rescue missions around the world, both failed and successful, before Wednesday's operation that freed 15 hostages in Colombia:--Sept. 3, 2004: Russian security forces storm school in Beslan, where Islamic militants hold more than 1,100 students, teachers and parents. Explosions, bullets and fire kill 333 people, nearly half of them children. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080703/a-look-at-past-rescue-missions.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:24:18 EDT Three U.S. hostages rescued from Colombian rebels after more than five years in captivity are in good condition and learning how to live a normal life again, military officials said Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/85318-colombia-us-hostages.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080703/plane-with-3-rescued-us-hostages-lands-in-texas.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080703/plane-with-3-rescued-us-hostages-lands-in-texas.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:45:22 EDT The plan was nothing if not audacious: A turncoat persuades rebels to bring together their most prized hostages and march them 90 miles through Colombia's wilderness. A month later, disguised commandos primed with acting lessons land in a helicopter and trick the rebels into handing them over. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/85039-aptopix-colombia-hostages.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080703/betancourt-calls-her-rescue-miracle.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080703/betancourt-calls-her-rescue-miracle.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:19:27 EDT When the drug-surveillance plane carrying Pentagon contractors Marc Gonsalves, Thomas Howes and Keith Stansell went down in rebel-held Colombian jungle in February 2003, it seemed like any public efforts to rescue them disappeared as well. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080702/contractors-longest-held-us-hostages.htm Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:35:01 EDT A look at key dates in the kidnapping of three American defense contractors and a Colombian politician held by Colombia's largest rebel force, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080702/key-dates-in-kidnappings-of-politician-americans.htm Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:24:22 EDT