The companies and the governments of those taken hostage have given few details about the number and identity of those taken captive, citing security reasons.

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"Hopefully, her angel is still with her, " said her sister, an army captain stationed at Fort Lee, Virginia, who flew home after being told her sister had been taken captive.

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In the action it is said that he feared he would be killed, injured, taken captive or stranded after fighting broke out between various factions during his trip to Beirut in 2008.

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Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) -- Somali pirates freed a British hostage Wednesday, nearly seven months after she was taken captive in a raid at a Kenyan beach resort in which her husband was killed.

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He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

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Just as usefully, if not more so, the two parts illuminate each other in intricate, specific ways, explaining why, for instance, a Japanese prisoner of war went berserk, or what happened to a GI after he was taken captive.

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In claiming responsibility for the attack, Ansaru said it taken them captive because of "transgression and atrocities" against Islam in Afghanistan, Mali and other locations.

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He has always maintained that he was never a member of the Farc and did not know that the baby had been taken from his captive mother.

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He was kidnapped the first week in April by a group calling itself Ansar al-Din and taken to Najaf, where he was joined by another captive, Nabil Razzouk, a Palestinian Christian from East Jerusalem.

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