Hostage Crisis

Obama Poll Watch -- November, 2011

Chris Weigant | Posted 02.04.2012

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Chris Weigant

This month Obama poll watchers got some good news, and some bad news. This was capped off by the Washington punditocracy making a stupid comparison between polling for Obama and Carter.

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David Lohr

Colorado Hostage Crises Over, 6-Month-Old Baby Rescued

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 10.19.2011

Read More: Gabriel Esparza, Video, Crime, Crime News, Tammy Dansko, La Salle, Hostage Crisis, Colorado, Denver News

Police in Colorado are preparing to end a standoff with a man who is holding his six-month-old daughter hostage inside his ex-girlfriend's residence i...

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Reality Check: The MEK and the Guardian's Credibility Gap

Ali Safavi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hoshyar Zebari, Wiston Churchill, District of Columbia, United Nations, Jack Straw, Pmoi, Iraq, Hostage Crisis, Mukasey, Court of Appeals, The Guardian, Kuwait, Mek, Giuliani, Taliban, Camp Ashraf, Stalin, Unscom, World News
Ali Safavi

An article published by The Guardian on the principal Iranian opposition movement, the Mujahedin-e Khalq, is jam-packed with first-grade logical blunders and topped with dubious historical analogies.

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Time To Help Discovery Channel Survivors With Invisible Wounds

Michelle Renee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mental Health, Hostage Crisis, Samhsa, Held Hostage, Discovery Channel, Michelle Renee, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Media News
Michelle Renee

My job led to my being taken captive, held hostage, threatened with death, and taped with explosives. Sound familiar? I know about the realities of ...

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Two Gunmen At Large After Taking Hostages in Florida Department Store (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Florida Standoff, Hostage Crisis, Venice SWAT, Tj Maxx, Venice Florida, Sarasota County, Video, Home News

VIDEO: The Associated Press released a video of the Venice Police Department SWAT team storming the department store, and evacuating hostages. Over t...

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Obama and the Ayatollah

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mir Hossein Mousavi, Afghanistan, Iran, Supreme Leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hostage Crisis, Iraq, Ali Khamenei, Al Qaeda, Al Jazeera, Revolutionary Guards, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Demonstrations in Tehran, John McCain, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, World News
William Bradley

How to respond to the Ayatollah is a particularly tricky question for Obama, because he has an unusual dual role to play: Inspirational global icon and president of the United States.

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