Read more hostage stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/28101/hostage.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 5:22:11 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74606/pirates-holding-12-year-old-girl-for-ransom.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA just-released pirate hostage says the Somalian scallywags are holding a 12-year-old Ukrainian girl captive aboard the British ship Ariana. Captain Ricardo Blach, whose ship, the Alakrana, was released last week after six weeks of captivity, says the pirates at one point brought him aboard the Ariana, where he met...http://www.newser.com/story/74606/pirates-holding-12-year-old-girl-for-ransom.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 23 Nov 2009 9:29:33 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73703/ny-gunman-surrenders-in-school-standoff.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA gunman holding an upstate New York school principal hostage has surrendered and is in custody, reports CNN . More than 100 police officers and a SWAT team negotiated with the gunman, who a local official said was a former student in his 40s. Pine Plains is located about 90 miles...http://www.newser.com/story/73703/ny-gunman-surrenders-in-school-standoff.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 10 Nov 2009 9:26:42 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/71944/nyt-reporter-recounts-7-months-as-prisoner.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNew York Times reporter David Rohde begins a gripping first-person account of his 7 months as a Taliban prisoner in Afghanistan before he managed to escape. In the first of the five-part series, he writes of his capture ("I waited for the sound of gunfire. I knew I might die...http://www.newser.com/story/71944/nyt-reporter-recounts-7-months-as-prisoner.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 17 Oct 2009 17:05:07 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69284/fugitive-holding-newlyweds-caught-napping.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA fugitive who’d dodged the law for days was nabbed when he fell asleep after taking a pair of newlyweds hostage in Kansas, AP reports. The couple gave the escaped con pillows and blankets and slipped out unharmed after he dozed off. Now, he’s set to return to Colorado to...http://www.newser.com/story/69284/fugitive-holding-newlyweds-caught-napping.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 13 Sep 2009 8:38:06 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64852/taliban-hostages-hometown-stayed-quiet-on-kidnapping.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Taliban's capture of an American soldier in Afghanistan is old news for some residents of his hometown, but they kept quiet out of concern for his safety, the AP reports. The family of Bowe R. Bergdahl asked neighbors and other community members in Hailey, Idaho, not to discuss his...http://www.newser.com/story/64852/taliban-hostages-hometown-stayed-quiet-on-kidnapping.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 20 Jul 2009 12:43:03 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63684/taliban-claim-to-have-drunk-us-captive-7-soldiers-killed.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSeven American troops lost their lives in the stepped-up battle against the Taliban today, the deadliest day for US forces in Afghanistan in nearly a year. The Taliban also confirmed on its website that it is holding an American soldier thought to be in enemy hands. “Five days ago, a...http://www.newser.com/story/63684/taliban-claim-to-have-drunk-us-captive-7-soldiers-killed.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 06 Jul 2009 14:44:40 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63381/taliban-captures-missing-us-soldier.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMilitary officials believe that a US soldier who’s been missing since Tuesday has been captured by the Taliban, the Washington Post reports. The soldier appears to have walked off base into an unsecured area for reasons that remain unclear. Today, the Taliban’s Haqqani faction claimed to have captured him, along...http://www.newser.com/story/63381/taliban-captures-missing-us-soldier.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 02 Jul 2009 6:45:53 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62471/times-reporter-planned-escape-for-weeks.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagDavid Rohde escaped from the Taliban only after weeks of planning, taking advantage of a length of rope to aid his descent down a 20-foot wall, the New York Times reports. The journalist and his Afghan colleague waited until a night when the city had electrical power, so the sound...http://www.newser.com/story/62471/times-reporter-planned-escape-for-weeks.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 22 Jun 2009 5:50:11 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/60846/al-qaeda-murders-british-hostage-held-in-mali.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA British hostage held in Mali has been killed by his al-Qaeda captors, the terror group announced on a website. Prime Minister Gordon Brown condemned the murder as an "appalling and barbaric act of terrorism," reports the BBC. Edwin Dyer was kidnapped in Niger in January with a group of...http://www.newser.com/story/60846/al-qaeda-murders-british-hostage-held-in-mali.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 03 Jun 2009 3:27:08 CDT