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hostages

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Hostages is an action video game developed by New Frontier and published by Infogrames . It was released for the Acorn Electron , Archimedes , Atari ST , Amiga , Apple IIGS , Amstrad CPC , BBC Micro , Commodore 64 , DOS , MSX , NES and ZX Spectrum platforms ...

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Third, Saddam believes it was a mistake to have released his Western hostages in December 1990, rather than keeping them and placing them at high-value facilities that the regime did not want to have bombed.

Pumas or Chinooks, depending on where the target is and where we can get the aircraft in, then straight in and take it out, grab the hostages, into the aircraft and back over.

Some of us sneaked in ahead at night and set up a position in a row of houses overlooking the square where the hostages were.

Most of them were looting the town, but there was a guard of several hundred around the hostages in the square.

Simbas had threatened to kill all the hostages if attacked, and God knows, they had had enough practice at massacres.

Simbas from killing the hostages until the main force could punch its way through.

Most of the hostages were left alive under guard, just sitting or trying to sleep on the ground, but a steady trickle was taken for the amusement of the Simbas and tortured to death.

If any act of hostility is directed against the Tielen army, all Azhkendi hostages are to be executed.

She said to tell you that the Jedi accept no responsibility for the hostages, and that any emissary you send with a similar threat will not be returned.

She felt a wave of fear that convinced her Plaan had not been lying about his hostages - and also a feral stirring, a strange sense of hungry agitation unlike anything she had ever experienced.

He will spare the Talfaglion hostages as long as the New Republic continues to turn over its Jedi.

The deliberate approach, he suspected, had less to do with a fear of space mines or ambushes than allowing the hostages plenty of time to contemplate their doom.

Still, he failed to see how intelligent beings could be persuaded that the utter destruction of an enemy fleet and the rescue of a planetful of hostages was a bad thing.

Refugee ships would be good - the furor over the hostages at Talfaglio had proven how vulnerable to such techniques the New Republic really was.

They asked for an exchange of hostages too, of course, but I told her that was nonsense!