The only support he seems to have received from the American government was a failed rescue attempt, called in when he was fighting off his captors in a canyon.
It is not clear whether the confession can be legally admitted as evidence in court, because it is possible the suspect made the video under pressure or threats from his captors in Syria.
The ex-fighter pilot who defied his captors in Vietnam and, often, his party's leaders in Washington.
Earlier, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond blamed militants for the deaths of hostages in Algeria amid reports that seven hostages and 11 captors had died in an army assault.
Mr Taylor said nothing had changed as his brother was still in the hands of his captors.
At a news conference, Noam Shalit said his son had been kept in harsh conditions by his captors initially, but his treatment had got better over the years.
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One hero was Yoni Netanyahu, who, in 1976, led the famous raid to free more than a hundred Israeli hostages from their Palestinian captors at the Entebbe airport, in Uganda.
Her attendance at this year's parade appears a further step in her rapprochement with her former captors.
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In 2010, Levinson's captors sent a "proof of life" videotape and photographs of him to his family.
The only Northern Irish worker involved, Stephen McFaul, 36, from Belfast, escaped from his captors after the jeep in which he was travelling crashed.
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Unlike the emergency feature on your keyfob, which sounds a loud alarm and notifies potential kidnappers that you're a fighter, the Nokia phone pretends that it's off when it's actually using every available sensor to suck in data about your location and captors.
The driver escaped from his captors at a gas station in Cambridge, Mass.
Experts say Dugard may have developed what is known as Stockholm syndrome, in which kidnapping victims identify with their captors.
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Flexible electronics will allow circuits, displays and solar captors to be integrated anywhere in the battle suit, including in the soldier's mask, as a transparent display.
Hostage Denis Allex died at the hands of his captors, the defense ministry said in a statement.
The French government, however, says it believes Mr Allex was killed by his captors during Friday's raid in which two French commandos died.
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Earlier, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond blamed militants for the deaths of hostages following reports that 11 captors and seven hostages had died in an army assault.
Three helicopters initiated a heated gunbattle with captors under the cover of darkness in the town about 75 miles northwest of the capital Mogadishu, eyewitnesses said.
He brings out well the paradox of Eichmann's genuine interest in Jewish history and culture (he greeted his captors with a Hebrew prayer), and the abominable crimes he committed.
Although Farouk Hijazi may have a lot to tell his captors right now, he was suspected in '93 of having been behind the plots to assassinate President George Bush Sr.
He is brighter than his captors, and it slowly transpires that, in his past, he was no less inflamed in his beliefs.
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Others were pushed into writing by circumstance: Mary Rowlandson, who was captured and held hostage by native Americans in 1675, later described her experiences in a vivid account that was part anthropology (her captors' alarming diet included tortoises and horses' ears) and part adventure story.
In psychology, Stockholm Syndrome is an apparently paradoxical psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and have positive feelings towards their captors, sometimes to the point of defending them.
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One of the most notable crime-solving psychics, Dorothy Allison, gained notoriety in the media for her work regarding high profile cases such as the Patty Hearst kidnapping, in which she claimed she predicted Hearst would later help her captors rob a bank.
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All seemed to have been held in conditions of near-slavery, their (mostly forged) identity papers confiscated by their captors.
It is likely the current hostages will be given little if any recognition of Christmas Day as many of their pirate captors are Somalian -- a predominantly Muslim country where Christmas is not celebrated the way it is in countries with a stronger Christian presence.
In Iraq today, several leading Sunni clerics used Friday prayers to call for the release of four Western hostages whose captors have threatened to kill them by tomorrow.
Seven hostages were killed by their captors during a final raid by Algerian troops - at least 23 hostages and 32 hostage-takers died in the four-day stand-off, Algerian officials say.
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