http://www.opendemocracy.net/terrorism/articles/hostage050307 Comments for "Histories of abduction, terrorism.openDemocracy " en http://www.opendemocracy.net/terrorism/articles/hostage050307 <p>Last week&#39;s kidnapping of fifteen western tourists in <a href="http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070302-062720-7287r"><strong>Ethiopia</strong></a> underlined the vulnerability of tourists and foreign workers in the unstable parts of the middle east and north Africa. Hostage-taking has become a favoured tactic of political militants in recent years, as evidenced by the ongoing abduction of foreign nationals in <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4790121.stm"><strong>Nigeria</strong></a> and <a href="http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2006/11/6-SWA/swa-201106.asp"><strong>Iraq</strong></a>. In the past two years, Palestinians in Gaza have captured over <a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/24/news/mideast.php"><strong>twenty westerners</strong></a>.</p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/terrorism/articles/hostage050307" class="read-more" title="Read the rest of this posting.">Read the rest of this post...</a><p><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/terrorism/articles/hostage050307">read more</a></p> http://www.opendemocracy.net/terrorism/articles/hostage050307#comment Creative Commons normal history religion terrorism terrorism.openDemocracy Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000 KVB Tharoor 33103 at http://www.opendemocracy.net