Hostage

The Iranian Revolution refers to events involving the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty under Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, who was supported by the United States and its eventual replacement with an Islamic republic under the Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the revolution, supported by various leftist and Islamic organizations and Iranian student movements. Demonstrations against the Shah commenced in October 1977, developing into a campaign of civil resistance that included both…

“Rock the Casbah” came out in June 11, 1982 by the English punk rock band The Clash. “Rock the Casbah” is the third single on The Clash's fifth album Combat Rock and reached number 8 on the Billboard hot 100 in the U.S. It also reached number 8 on the dance chart. I think that the lyrics, by Joe Strummer, were inspired by a news report of Iranians being flogged for the crime of owning a disco album and create an amusing fantasy where a disco-hating sharif is defied by everyone from the citizens…

between right and wrong. The way they kidnap hostages they have a clear idea what they want and what will they achieved. Appeasement as stated is not a good idea and governments should not give in. As rational thinkers, they will demand money for hostages. The more you give in demands the more of cycle it becomes. Lake (2002), states as rational thinkers terrorist analyze a situation for the sole purpose of acquiring a main goal. When situation has hostage taking…

In 1973, an escaped convict went into a bank in Norrmalmstorg Square in the city and took four employees hostage. Things didn’t go according to plan, so he kept them inside the bank vault for more than 5 days. But soon, something strange happened. On the second day, the hostages were on a first-name basis with their captor and seemed hostile to the police who came to check on them. Police eventually pumped tear gas into the vault, allowing…

The movie “Inside Man” consist of crime thriller, detective, and mystery. This detective movie consists of a bank heist. There are many hostages and criminals within the mystery. The detective must be inspiring and able to put clues together no one else can. Also, the detective in this movie must follow police procedural. A good detective story has many mysteries involved and the detective has great mindset skills. In the beginning of the detective mystery there is a called made of a bank…

here, the army is here”, during an active hostage rescue mission. When Air France Flight 139 took off from Tel Aviv bound for Paris, no one on board could foresee the flight being hijacked. As the plane stopped in Athens for fuel, 4 terrorists boarded. Eventually, the plane landed in Entebbe,Uganda, where 94 passengers and the 12 crew were kept as hostages. 6 days later, Israeli Sayeret Matkal special forces stormed Entebbe Airport and rescued 102 hostages(Freedland). After learning about a…

which a hostage begins to form a psychological alliance with their capture as a tool for survival during captivity (2010). The term Stockholm syndrome was coined after the Normalmstorg robbery incident in Sweden during 1973 (Burgess, Regehr, & Roberts, 2013). After the incident occurred, the hostages claimed to be sympathetic against their captures and were more scared of the police then the actual men who held them against their will (Ealy, 2017). It is not unusual that while being held…

Raid was definitely a justifiable act. The Israeli Government had little choice but to rescue the hostages at Entebbe Airport by force as the lives of the hostages were in imminent danger and they were in a precarious situation. The government feared a repeat of the Munich massacre after which they had received much criticism from their people for not sending troops to rescue the Israeli hostages. They could not afford to make the same mistake and were forced to disregard the sovereignty of…

to negotiate” (John F. Kennedy). A crisis-negotiation is when a perpetrator has either taken hostages or holds up within a location refusing to give himself up to the police, in which a negotiation team must become involved. Negotiation originated in the 1970s in New York City, for dealing with crime and political events with distinctive features of hostage-taking. When it first started the term Hostage Negotiation Team (HNT) was used to describe the police unit then it got renamed it to the…

good for the economy or the other countries around Kuwait. Many Americans were worried about this because in the act of this take over, Saddam captured 15 Americans and kept them hostage. America knew it would be hard to retrieve the hostages because of the power the Iraqi leader had. In an attempt to save the hostages,…