Unfortunately, the death toll among hostages is high in Afghanistan and Iraq. Also, the frequency of kidnapping of overseas personnel has markedly increased in Afghanistan since the US invasion in 2001. The taking of foreign hostages has become a particularly popular modus operandi for terrorists (who tend to be well-organized and selective in their ‘target’ hostages), particularly due to their cynical but generally effective use of extensive media coverage. Also, some insurgency groups sell hostages on to other groups for their own purposes. Moreover, ransoms may be used to fund political and religious activities. ransom) may be conveniently masked by alleged religious, political and moral ones.
3 In reality it is usually difficult to identify any single motive, particularly when the event is terrorist-inspired. to obtain a particular outcome such as ransom). an effort to voice and/or publicize a grievance or express a frustrated emotion) and ‘instrumental’ (i.e. Motives can be divided into ‘expressive’ (i.e. 2 Also, after this tragedy, many international authorities revised their strategies for dealing with hostage incidents and sieges. The unsuccessful negotiations, and the tragic deaths of the whole team during an abortive rescue effort by the German Border Police, were relayed throughout the world by the international media. In 1972, the ‘Black September’ group (an auxiliary faction of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation) took hostage the Israeli wrestling team at the Munich Olympics. This event caused public revulsion, and the revision of the authorities' bargaining and investigating methods, particularly by the FBI, and even the suicide of a waitress to the family, who was cleared in the enquiries. The mutilated body of the child was found and the perpetrator was executed on 3 April 1936.
#The hostage serial
1 The suffering of the child's parents, and the difficulties of the police enquiry, were exacerbated by widespread speculation and misinformation, and serial random notes. For example, one of the earliest was the kidnapping on 1 March 1932 by Bruno Hauptmann, a German carpenter, of Colonel Charles Lindbergh's son for ransom. (Hence, ‘kid’ meaning ‘child’, and ‘nap’ or ‘nab’ meaning ‘to snatch’.) Press-ganging was a means of ensuring an adequate supply of personnel for the merchant fleet during the 19th century.Ĭertain high profile events, much due to the efforts of the media, highlighted the psychological impact of kidnapping. In the 17th century, children were stolen from their families for ‘export’ to the North American colonies as servants and labourers. In medieval times, knights displayed their noble heritage through heraldic devices in the hope that their higher perceived market value would increase their chances of being kept alive for ransom rather than being killed. Early texts refer to the kidnapping of Abram's nephew (Lot), Julius Caesar and Richard the Lionheart.
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