Mr. MAHTANI: Well, Nigeria is the eighth biggest exporter in the world, and after these wave of attacks last week, which included the hostage taking and an explosion on a pipeline that fed a key export terminal, Nigeria had to shut down about 226, 000 barrels per day, that's about 10% of Nigeria's total production, which are still down.
Plainly, fighting terrorism or hostage-taking in the Sahel is a different sort of intervention.
They were first seen in the Russian capital at last October's hostage-taking in a Moscow theater.
The agency will look into the hijacking and hostage-taking, two law enforcement officials told CNN.
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And on Sunday French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian described the hostage-taking as an "act of war".
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The hostage-taking incident occurred after firefighters entered the home of a man in response to a medical call.
The FBI is launching a criminal investigation into the hijacking and hostage-taking, two law enforcement officials told CNN.
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The federal grand jury charged Ms Nijmeijer and 17 other Farc rebels with hostage-taking, conspiracy to provide support and weapons charges.
The UN Security Council condemned the "heinous" hostage-taking, saying the incident underlined the need to bring its perpetrators, organisers and financiers to justice.
She said the Obama administration is pressing for a greater understanding of the hostage-taking there and rescue effort that left three Americans dead.
Soon after Abbas' capture, U.S. officials said U.S. indictments of Abbas for piracy, hostage-taking and conspiracy have apparently expired, although they could be renewed.
But Mr Medvedev is unlikely to stop the hostage-taking, corporate raids by state agencies, rent-seeking and corruption that have become part of a system.
As Alec MacGillis writes, in the months leading up to the 2011 debt ceiling fight, the idea of debt hostage-taking was seen as nearly unthinkable.
Suspicions that he may be behind the hostage-taking in Moscow were given credence by reports that the rebels themselves claimed he had ordered the attack.
After the hostage-taking was reported, dozens of police and rescue vehicles surrounded the home and a negotiator was keeping in touch with the gunman, police said.
Faryadi Zardad, who was living in Streatham at the time of his arrest, was found guilty at the Old Bailey of torture and hostage-taking in his home country.
The truth of the matter is that the Obama administration - by facilitating if not actively encouraging the Clinton and Webb missions - has indeed invited more hostage-taking.
Growing out of Algeria's Islamist militancy, al Qaeda in the Maghreb was for years dismissed by Western intelligence as a criminal organization, focused on lucrative smuggling and hostage-taking more than jihad.
Remarks by Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi condemning the hostage-taking in Algeria, but suggesting military intervention in Mali would inflame conflict in the region, were a "sign of the complexities of building consensus", our correspondent added.
Four people were dead including the gunman following a hostage-taking incident on Saturday in Aurora, Colorado, the same town where a man shot dead 12 people and wounded 58 more at a movie theater last July.
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The International News Safety Institute, a coalition of groups devoted to journalists' safety, said credible sources alerted the group that "terrorist organizations may be planning to attack oil fields in Libya, " with attacks threatening to mirror the Algerian hostage-taking.
Immediately, the henchmen of evil boss Grayle take Rory hostage (I had to dig deep to find out why: It turns out that Grayle was actually taking River hostage but Rory got in the way).
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The guerrilla commander guarding Mr Lizcano opted to desert, taking his hostage with him.
But it would have to be proven that he wanted to influence the actions of a third party by taking a hostage.
West Bengal has a lexicon of strife, with goons who flex political muscles on the streets and widespread gheraos (taking bosses hostage) and bandhs (general strikes).
In 1979, Iranian student revolutionaries took revenge, seizing the US Embassy in Tehran and taking 52 people hostage.
Early hours: Police say the two suspects hijack a car at gunpoint in Cambridge, Massachusetts, taking the driver as a hostage.
In March 2006 they seized a train in Latehar, also in Jharkhand, taking more than 40 passengers hostage - but freed them 12 hours later.
Sheardown was an immigration officer at the Canadian Embassy in Tehran when students and militants stormed the U.S. Embassy there on November 4, 1979, taking more than 50 Americans hostage.
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