Time Held Hostage
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Most Famous Baroque Classics
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Most Famous Baroque Classics written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with categories.
Time Held Hostage
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Author : J. W. Ferrari
language : en
Publisher: Lulu Publishing Services
Release Date : 2015-01-16
Time Held Hostage written by J. W. Ferrari and has been published by Lulu Publishing Services this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-16 with categories.
Shelter drills, discussions at school, media exposure, all served to embed the idea of threat to our very existence deep in conscious and subconscious thought. In this book the worldwide events that took place during the Cold War are explored through the lens of everyday life. The stories presented in Time Held Hostage, Cold War Casualties and Other Atomic Age Stories are reflections on the effect of a threat and anxiety experienced by a generation.
Held Hostage Analyses Of Kidnapping Across Time And Among Jihadist Organizations
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Author : Seth Loertscher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Held Hostage Analyses Of Kidnapping Across Time And Among Jihadist Organizations written by Seth Loertscher and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with categories.
Held Hostage
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Author : U. S. Military
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-11-11
Held Hostage written by U. S. Military and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-11 with categories.
This book provides policymakers, practitioners, and academics with data and analysis regarding kidnapping events perpetrated by jihadist groups against Westerners in non-Western countries. It will do so by first examining all non-state actor kidnappings from both a macro- and micro-level to place the phenomenon in context. This general approach then becomes the springboard from which to compare and contrast trends in jihadist kidnappings with those of other non-state actors. Following a brief introduction that outlines the scope, data, and methods used in the study, the first section's macro-level analysis uses data from the Global Terrorism Database (GDT) maintained by the University of Maryland's START Consortium (7,048 incidents between 1970 and 2013). The second section's micro-level analysis of kidnapping events involving Western hostages since 2001 utilizes an original Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) dataset consisting of 1,485 observations that incorporated data from individual academics, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), non-profit and for-profit research think tanks, and private sector insurance companies. There has been a worldwide spike in kidnapping events since 2003. The trend is global and not confined to one specific region. The overwhelming majority of kidnappings are domestic (intra-state); kidnappings of Westerners are rare in comparison to the universe of kidnappings. Kidnapping of Westerners (2001-2015) Overall Trends - Although total non-state actor kidnapping incidents and victims peaked in 2008 due to Somali piracy, the number of incidents and victims have trended upward from 2010 to 2014. Jihadist groups are primarily responsible for these increases. The Middle East, followed by Africa, accounts for the most total kidnappings and the most Sunni jihadist kidnappings, however, most abductions in Africa are conducted by non-jihadist actors. Trends in Nationality of Victims - Six countries (Turkey, United States, Italy, United Kingdom, France, and Germany) account for more than 60% of total, jihadist, and other non-state actor kidnappings. Trends in Sunni jihadist kidnapping rates from 2010-2014 for these countries generally mirror the overall increase in Sunni jihadist abductions, casting some doubt on the ability or desire of Sunni jihadist groups to target by nationality.
The Destined Hour
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Author : Barbara Rosen
language : en
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Release Date : 1982
The Destined Hour written by Barbara Rosen and has been published by Doubleday Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Political Science categories.
Former hostage, Barry Rosen, gives a first-person account of the take-over of the American embassy in Iran and his 444 days in captivity juxtaposed with his wife's account of the effect of these events on the families of the hostages.
The Hostage Handbook
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Author : Anthony Grey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-11
The Hostage Handbook written by Anthony Grey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11 with British categories.
The Thoughts of Chairman Grey present the highly charge verbatim transcription of the text of the author?s secret shorthand diaries which he wrote and kept hidden during his period of two years and two months solitary confinement as a hostage in China. The reader receives a powerful sense of feeling what it was like, moment by moment, to be held hostage in isolation in a hostile land. He says he now sees the two harrowing years held in a slogan daubed house in the heart of Beijing as ? a huge delayed action privilege? and realises, more than three decades later, how the insights provided by that experience - and the very act of keeping those secret diaries themselves - helped shape his life positively after his release. He has been an avid journal keeper ever since and in an accompanying commentary he extols the virtues of that reflective discipline.
Taken Hostage Stories And Strategies
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Author : Larry Busch
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2016-04-30
Taken Hostage Stories And Strategies written by Larry Busch and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-30 with Political Science categories.
Written by a former hostage negotiator, Taken Hostage provides specific daily behavioral, situational, and long-term psychological strategies used successfully by hostages who survived months and years of mental and physical torture by terrorists, religious extremists, and criminal gangs. The book describes in detail the five stages of a hostage taking. Whether taken hostage for ransom, political leverage, or as a human shield, the book suggests what treatment the hostage can expect during each stage and how to best counter them. Taken Hostage describes how a hostage can moderate the physical and mental effects caused by physical tortures such as binding, suspension, beatings, starvation, and sexual assault and against mental tortures such as social deprivation, false executions, and brainwashing. The book identifies the mental hazards of depression, suicide, and barbed-wire psychosis and how to combat them. Particular strategies such as passive compliance and humanizing will instruct the hostage on how to apply recognized psychological strategies to the hostages advantage, and as such, play a more active role in their day-to-day physical treatment and sustain positive mental health. The book stresses safer travel planning as the most important strategy against being kidnapped in the first place. It details hotel security, insider accomplices, finding the right hotel and the right taxi, and how to use countersurveillance techniques to identify and thwart a potential kidnapping. The book coaches the hostages family and employers back home how to effectively manage the media and one another, thereby reducing the incidence of hostage and family PTSD and reintegrating a changed person back into their changed family. The detailed survival strategies will inspire a hostages will to live and sustain a familys hope. It is written for domestic and international travelers, UN and NGO volunteers, military personnel, and anyone in harms way.
Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
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Author : Colin Freeman
language : en
Publisher: Icon Books
Release Date : 2021-03-04
Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea written by Colin Freeman and has been published by Icon Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-04 with History categories.
'Captivating, a John le Carre-esque yarn' Telegraph 'A thoroughly good read' Michael Portillo, author of Portillo's Hidden History of Britain and presenter of Great British Railway Journeys 'A compelling story of courage, determination and skill' Terry Waite CBE, author of Taken on Trust The true story of a retired British army officer's private Somali-hostage rescue mission During the peak of the Somali piracy crisis, three ships - from Malaysia, Thailand and Taiwan - were hijacked and then abandoned to their fate by their employers, who lacked the money to pay ransoms. All would still be there, were it not for Colonel John Steed, a retired British military attaché, who launched his own private mission to free them. At 65, Colonel Steed was hardly an ideal saviour. With no experience in hostage negotiations and no money behind him, he had to raise the ransom cash from scratch, running the operation from his spare room and ferrying million-dollar ransom payments around in the boot of his car. Drawing on first-hand interviews, former chief foreign correspondent of The Sunday Telegraph, Colin Freeman, who has himself spent time held hostage by Somali pirates, takes readers on an inside track into the world of hostage negotiation and one man's heroic rescue mission.
An Act To Provide Certain Benefits To Individuals Held Hostage In Iran And To Similarly Situated Individuals And For Other Purposes
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Author : United States
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
An Act To Provide Certain Benefits To Individuals Held Hostage In Iran And To Similarly Situated Individuals And For Other Purposes written by United States and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Income tax categories.
Six Years A Hostage
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Author : Stephen McGown
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2021-07-29
Six Years A Hostage written by Stephen McGown and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-29 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF THE LONGEST-HELD AL QAEDA CAPTIVE IN THE WORLD Stephen McGown was en route from London to South Africa, on a once-in-a-lifetime trip by motorbike, returning home to Johannesburg. He had reached Timbuktu, in Mali, when he was captured, along with a Dutch and a Swedish national, by Al Qaeda Islamist militants. Steve was taken because he held a British passport. He was subsequently held hostage at various camps in the Sahara Desert in the north-west of Africa for nearly six years before eventually being released. Life as Steve had known it changed in that instant that he was taken at gunpoint. He had nothing to bargain with, and everything to lose. For the next six years, he reluctantly engaged in what he came to call the greatest chess game of his life. Thousands of kilometres to the south, in Johannesburg, the shock of Stephen's capture struck the McGown family and his wife, Cath, with whom he had, until recently, been living in London. They immediately began efforts to secure Steve's release, through diplomatic channels and in every other way they felt might have a chance of seeing Stephen freed. But as the months of captivity became years, Steve was compelled to go to extraordinary lengths to survive. Making it back home alive became his sole aim. To accomplish this, he realised that he would have to do everything he could to raise his status in the eyes of his captors. To this end, he taught himself Arabic and French, and also converted to Islam, accepting a new name, Lot. To this day, Steve retains the unenviable record of being the longest-held, surviving prisoner of Al Qaeda. While he was undoubtedly always Al Qaeda's captive, through the long years he spent in intimate proximity to his captors, Steve got to see the Islamist militants as few other Westerners have ever seen them. Six Years a Hostage is not only a remarkable story of mental strength, physical endurance and the resilience of the human spirit, but also, significantly, a unique and nuanced perspective on one of the world's most feared terrorist groups. Steve did not merely survive his terrible ordeal; he emerged from the desert a changed - stronger, more positive - human being. This is Stephen McGown's remarkable story, as told to Tudor Caradoc-Davies, a freelance writer, editor and author based in Cape Town, South Africa. After seven years spent working for glossy magazines such as Men's Health, GQ, Best Life and Women's Health, he now contributes to a range of publications. He also writes for the (South African) Sunday Times, and Red Bulletin.