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Munich To Exploding Pagers: Why Mossad Is Respected, And Feared
Ask any expert which they think the world's premier and most effective spy agency is and the odds are that Israel's Mossad will be in their top three.
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Passenger Beaten Up, Restrained After Trying To Open Door Mid-Air On Copa Airlines Flight
An unruly plane passenger who attempted to open the emergency door mid-flight was beaten up and restrained by fellow passengers on a Copa Airlines flight.
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Fighting Across Gaza As Israel Drops Leaflets To Help Locate Its Hostages
Israel pounded targets across the Gaza Strip on Saturday while its planes dropped leaflets on the southern area of Rafah urging Palestinians seeking refuge there to help locate hostages held by Hamas, residents said.
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"Mamataji Offered Self In Exchange For Kandahar Hostages": Yashwant Sinha
Amid the prevailing tension in the wake of the hijacking of the Indian Airlines plane to Kandahar in 1999, Mamata Banerjee, a Union Cabinet Minister then, had offered herself as a hostage in exchange for the passengers of the flight, former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha said today. Recalling his days with her as a colleague, the former senior BJP...
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Revealed: Exact Role Of Ajit Doval In Masood Azhar's Release For IC 814
The release of terror mastermind Masood Azhar in 1999 in exchange for the 155 passengers held hostage on the hijacked Indian Airlines flight IC-814 is at the core of an electoral battle today, but many details of this swap remain secret.
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Last Flight Home For Hijacked Plane That German Army Stormed 40 Years Ago
Forty years ago next month, German anti-terror commandos stormed a Lufthansa jet in Somalia, shot its Palestinian hijackers and freed 90 hostages, a climax in a bloody era of far-left militancy
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EgyptAir Plane Hijacker Arrested, Hostages Safe: 10 Developments
The hijacker who seized an EgyptAir flight and forced it to land in Cyprus has been arrested, government spokesperson Nicos Christodoulides said on Tuesday. A man was seen climbing out of the cockpit window as it was reported that all passengers were safely off the plane.
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Rescued Before Execution By ISIS: Freed Hostages Recount Ordeal
The last thing that came to Saad Khalaf Ali's mind as his Islamic State interrogators smothered him with a plastic bag was his two wives and children. Then everything went dark.
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Japan to Arrest Red Army Member on Return from US: Media Report
A member of Japan's ultra-leftist Red Army guerrilla group, who was released from prison in exchange for hostages held in a 1977 plane hijacking, is to be arrested today when he arrives in Japan from the US.
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Father Asks Islamic State to Treat Captured Pilot Son as 'Guest'
The father of a Jordanian pilot captured by Islamic State fighters after his plane crashed in Syria said he did not consider his son a hostage and called on his captors to treat him as a "guest".
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Sky marshals to get special 'dum dum' bullets
Sky marshals, deployed on civilian aircraft to counter hijack or hostage situations, have been armed with modern 'dum dum' bullets that burst inside the body of an attacker instead of passing through and hitting any passenger or puncturing the plane's body.
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Jet returns to Philadelphia over hoax phone call
A security scare that prompted authorities to recall an airborne flight to Philadelphia was the result of an apparent hoax, authorities said Thursday.
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Loss of radio contact prompts Amsterdam plane hijack scare
The Netherlands intercepted a Spanish airliner with two fighter planes and then sent security forces to surround it on the tarmac at Amsterdam's airport in a hijack scare caused by a loss of radio contact.
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Passengers taken hostage at Jamaican airport: Report
An unspecified number of passengers have been taken hostage on a flight bound for Canada at an airport in Jamaica, a news website reported on Monday.
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Munich To Exploding Pagers: Why Mossad Is Respected, And Feared
Ask any expert which they think the world's premier and most effective spy agency is and the odds are that Israel's Mossad will be in their top three.
-
Passenger Beaten Up, Restrained After Trying To Open Door Mid-Air On Copa Airlines Flight
An unruly plane passenger who attempted to open the emergency door mid-flight was beaten up and restrained by fellow passengers on a Copa Airlines flight.
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Fighting Across Gaza As Israel Drops Leaflets To Help Locate Its Hostages
Israel pounded targets across the Gaza Strip on Saturday while its planes dropped leaflets on the southern area of Rafah urging Palestinians seeking refuge there to help locate hostages held by Hamas, residents said.
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"Mamataji Offered Self In Exchange For Kandahar Hostages": Yashwant Sinha
Amid the prevailing tension in the wake of the hijacking of the Indian Airlines plane to Kandahar in 1999, Mamata Banerjee, a Union Cabinet Minister then, had offered herself as a hostage in exchange for the passengers of the flight, former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha said today. Recalling his days with her as a colleague, the former senior BJP...
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Revealed: Exact Role Of Ajit Doval In Masood Azhar's Release For IC 814
The release of terror mastermind Masood Azhar in 1999 in exchange for the 155 passengers held hostage on the hijacked Indian Airlines flight IC-814 is at the core of an electoral battle today, but many details of this swap remain secret.
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Last Flight Home For Hijacked Plane That German Army Stormed 40 Years Ago
Forty years ago next month, German anti-terror commandos stormed a Lufthansa jet in Somalia, shot its Palestinian hijackers and freed 90 hostages, a climax in a bloody era of far-left militancy
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EgyptAir Plane Hijacker Arrested, Hostages Safe: 10 Developments
The hijacker who seized an EgyptAir flight and forced it to land in Cyprus has been arrested, government spokesperson Nicos Christodoulides said on Tuesday. A man was seen climbing out of the cockpit window as it was reported that all passengers were safely off the plane.
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Rescued Before Execution By ISIS: Freed Hostages Recount Ordeal
The last thing that came to Saad Khalaf Ali's mind as his Islamic State interrogators smothered him with a plastic bag was his two wives and children. Then everything went dark.
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Japan to Arrest Red Army Member on Return from US: Media Report
A member of Japan's ultra-leftist Red Army guerrilla group, who was released from prison in exchange for hostages held in a 1977 plane hijacking, is to be arrested today when he arrives in Japan from the US.
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Father Asks Islamic State to Treat Captured Pilot Son as 'Guest'
The father of a Jordanian pilot captured by Islamic State fighters after his plane crashed in Syria said he did not consider his son a hostage and called on his captors to treat him as a "guest".
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Sky marshals to get special 'dum dum' bullets
Sky marshals, deployed on civilian aircraft to counter hijack or hostage situations, have been armed with modern 'dum dum' bullets that burst inside the body of an attacker instead of passing through and hitting any passenger or puncturing the plane's body.
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Jet returns to Philadelphia over hoax phone call
A security scare that prompted authorities to recall an airborne flight to Philadelphia was the result of an apparent hoax, authorities said Thursday.
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Loss of radio contact prompts Amsterdam plane hijack scare
The Netherlands intercepted a Spanish airliner with two fighter planes and then sent security forces to surround it on the tarmac at Amsterdam's airport in a hijack scare caused by a loss of radio contact.
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Passengers taken hostage at Jamaican airport: Report
An unspecified number of passengers have been taken hostage on a flight bound for Canada at an airport in Jamaica, a news website reported on Monday.
