In which city was Terry Waite taken hostage in 1987?
"and he assisted in negotiations which secured the release of Lawrence Jenco and David Jacobsen. His use of an American helicopter to travel secretly between Cyprus and Lebanon and his appearance with Lt Colonel Oliver North, however, meant that he was compromised when the Irangate scandal broke. Against advice, Waite felt a need to demonstrate his continuing trust and integrity, and his commitment to the remaining hostages. He arrived in Beirut on 12 January 1987 with the intention of negotiating with the Islamic Jihad Organization, which was holding the men. On 20 January 1987, he agreed to meet the captors"
"TWA Flight 847 attack, Hammadi was arrested in Frankfurt, West Germany, in 1987 while attempting to smuggle liquid explosives. The United States immediately requested his extradition but Hizbullah immediately abducted two West Germans in Beirut, and threatened to kill them if Hamadei were extradited. Then it was decided to try Hamadei in West Germany. In addition to the charges in West Germany of illegal importation of explosives, he was charged with the 1985 hijacking and hostage taking; tried and convicted of Stethem's 1985 murder, he was sentenced to life in prison. The first opportunity for parole to be granted on"
"of Oz"", Episode 4 – Armed and Dangerous. 1984 Sydney bank robbery The 1984 Sydney bank robbery and hostage crisis was an incident that took place between the hours of 10:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. on 31 January 1984 in George Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, when a 35-year-old male went on a bank robbery spree, taking 11 people hostage, before holding police at bay for several hours before finally being shot dead. The event was described as ""Australia's most dramatic hostage chase"" with ""scenes likened to a Hollywood action film."" Turkish born 35-year-old Hakki Bahadir Atahan was unemployed"
"the standoff, the first documented case of such a hostage situation in history, before police had the page shut down to facilitate negotiations. Three Gateway Center Three Gateway Center is a 344 ft (105m) skyscraper in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was completed in 1952 and has 24 floors. It is the 20th tallest building in Pittsburgh. On the morning of September 21, 2012, 22-year-old military veteran Klein Michael Thaxton (who reportedly had a criminal record, and was believed to be carrying a gun and two duffel bags) stormed into a 16th-floor office of CW Breitsman Associates and took a male hostage"
"1984 Sydney bank robbery The 1984 Sydney bank robbery and hostage crisis was an incident that took place between the hours of 10:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. on 31 January 1984 in George Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, when a 35-year-old male went on a bank robbery spree, taking 11 people hostage, before holding police at bay for several hours before finally being shot dead. The event was described as ""Australia's most dramatic hostage chase"" with ""scenes likened to a Hollywood action film."" Turkish born 35-year-old Hakki Bahadir Atahan was unemployed at the time of his armed robbery spree"
"suffered serious eye infections and other health problems as a result of his captivity. In changing from one hiding place to another, he was bound with tape and placed in stifling hiding places in trucks, lest he be found by soldiers or police inspecting a vehicle. He also suffered beatings by the guards. After a period of 18 months imprisonment, Jenco was freed on July 26, 1986, after months of negotiations involving the Reagan Administration, Shiite radicals and the Anglican envoy Terry Waite, who was himself later held hostage in Beirut for four and a half years. After his death,"
"Alta View Hospital hostage incident The Alta View Hospital hostage incident began September 20, 1991, when Richard Worthington, armed with a shotgun, a handgun, and sticks of dynamite arrived at Alta View Hospital in Sandy, Utah, in an attempt to kill Dr. Glade Curtis who had performed a tubal ligation on his wife. Worthington entered the Hospital's Women's Center and took as hostages two nurses, a patient giving birth, her sister, the father, and two newborn babies. Curtis saw what was happening and hid in his office, where he called the police. When the police arrived, nurse Karla Roth attempted"
"labour force employed by the Admiralty to construct the Harbour of Refuge breakwater. The Admiralty project was unique in Scotland as it was served by the only state-owned passenger-carrying railway in its day. On 28 September 1987 a riot in the prison's D wing resulted in prisoners taking over the building and taking a prison officer, 56-year-old Jackie Stuart, hostage. The rioters were serving life in prison for violent crimes. It was thought that they had nothing to lose and would not hesitate to make good on their threats to kill their hostage, whom they had taken up to the"
"the gunman was shot and killed with a hail of bullets to his head and chest. Henry's Pub hostage incident The Henry's Pub hostage incident was a hostage crisis that occurred on September 28, 1990 at Henry's Pub inside the Hotel Durant in Berkeley, California, United States, when Mehrdad Dashti, who had schizophrenia, held 33 hostages for seven hours, terrorizing them and sexually degrading some of them. At about 12:30 am, Iranian born 31 year-old Mehrdad Dashti brought with him 445 rounds of ammunition, and three guns and held 33 hostages for 7 hours in the bar near the University"
"to Illinois to complete the filming. The movie earned Oscar nominations. Dyersburg was mentioned in the lyrics of the song ""Tennessee"", written and performed by the 1990s hip hop group Arrested Development. On September 17, 2003, Harold Kilpatrick Jr. took 15 people hostage in an upper story classroom at Dyersburg State Community College. Kilpatrick suffered from severe schizophrenia and paranoia and was not on appropriate medications. His only demands into the sixth hour were six pizzas and 24 sodas. After nine hours or more, a shot was heard inside the classroom, prompting the Dyersburg police to forcibly enter the room"
"put to his head and he was bundled into a waiting car. A few days later his photograph was sent to Associated British Foods, and this was followed by a phone call demanding an IR£5 million ransom. The Gardaí eventually tracked Tidey and his kidnappers – four in all – to Derrada Wood in Ballinamore, County Leitrim on 16 December 1983. In the subsequent shoot-out, a trainee Garda and an Irish Army soldier (Gary Sheehan and Patrick Kelly) were killed. Tidey's kidnappers escaped. On 16 January 1986, McFarlane was recaptured in the Netherlands along with fellow escapee Gerry Kelly, and"
"school's president. On 20 September 1984, he is alleged to have attacked the US embassy annex building. The United States indicted Mughniyeh (and his collaborator Hassan Izz al-Din) for 14 June 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847, in which he tortured and murdered the U.S. Navy personnel Robert Stethem. Mughniyeh and his men allegedly tortured Stethem for hours, before killing him and dumping his body onto the airport tarmac. U.S. and Israeli officials have also alleged that Mughniyeh was involved in numerous kidnappings of Americans in Beirut during the 1980s, most notably the kidnapping of Terry Anderson, Terry Waite, and"
"hostage in the Hollywood Café, Esselen Street, Sunnyside. The Special Task Force was summoned to the scene by Radio Control after which the hostage taker was arrested and the hostage tactically released. The man was found guilty of armed robbery, kidnapping, pointing of a firearm and possession of an unlicensed firearm. 24 to 25 February 1995 – Hostage Situation, St Albans Prison – Port Elizabeth. 22 members of the Special Task Force were summoned to St Alban's Prison, Port Elizabeth where approximately 105 prisoners had taken a prison warder as hostage. During the night of 24 – 25 February 1995,"
"Hoddle Street massacre The Hoddle Street massacre was a mass shooting that occurred on the evening of Sunday, 9 August 1987, in Hoddle Street, Clifton Hill, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, in Australia. The shootings resulted in the deaths of seven people, and serious injury to 19 others. After a police chase lasting more than 30 minutes, 19-year-old former Australian Army officer cadet Julian Knight was caught in nearby Fitzroy North and arrested for the shootings. Knight was later sentenced to seven concurrent sentences of life imprisonment with a non-parole period of 27 years for what was described by the"
"New York, a FBI agent shot White in the arm and White surrendered. The pilots, flight engineer, flight attendant, and Deputy Marshal then escaped down an escape slide. White followed and was arrested and taken to Queens General Hospital. Later, White was deemed too incompetent for trial and was committed to a state mental hospital in Chester, Illinois. TWA Flight 358 Trans World Airlines Flight 358 (TWA Flight 358) was a domestic flight traveling from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport to New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport. On June 11, 1971, a ticketless man named Gregory White boarded the"
"Brooklyn, at 2:30 a.m. on May 18, 1987. He had been shot multiple times. He was the last of several suspects in the Lufthansa heist. The remaining witnesses or participants were his father, Jimmy Burke (who was imprisoned for murder), Paul Vario (who was in prison for racketeering), and three others who had disappeared into the Witness Protection Program by this time: Henry Hill, and Lufthansa Air John F. Kennedy International Airport employees Louis Werner and Peter Gruenwald. Frank Burke's death was the result of a fraudulent drug transaction. He sold cocaine cut with flour to a drug dealer, who"
"fairground in Wokingham, Berkshire, England. In 1990, it emerged that on the night he disappeared, Tildesley had been abducted, drugged, tortured, raped and murdered by a London-based paedophile gang, led by Sidney Cooke. Another man named Leslie Bailey was charged with murder in 1991 and the following year was given two life sentences. Bailey was murdered in prison by other inmates shortly afterwards. The case remains officially unsolved despite being featured heavily in the national press and on BBC TV's ""Crimewatch"". In 1988, Helen McCourt, a 22-year-old insurance clerk from Lancashire disappeared. Ian Simms, a local pub landlord, was subsequently"
"both ran the test again in 1988, and demonstrated a match. Police also used evidence from his cashpoint card to prove that he had travelled from London to Bristol that day. Reading is on the railway line between these cities. In October 1987, he tried to abduct 30-year-old Bristol businesswoman Julia Holman from a car park at around 6.50 pm at gunpoint but she fought him off and later identified him as her attacker. The next night he abducted Shirley Banks. Banks, who was a newly married 29-year-old textiles factory manager from Clifton, was abducted on the evening of 8"
"sentenced to forty years in prison for kidnapping, rape and attempted murder, but was released early after nine years. In February 1987, he abducted 72-year-old Alice Martin, who was walking to her home in Normangee, Texas. He drove her to a field in Robertson County where he raped, gagged and stabbed her. In July of the same year, he kidnapped 26-year-old Debra Lynn Ewing from her Huntsville workplace and drove her to Montgomery County, where he raped and stabbed her. In October 1987, he attempted to kidnap 36-year-old Mary Carrell Risinger at a car wash in Huntsville. However, she resisted"
"West End Christian School hostage crisis The West End Christian School hostage crisis occurred on February 2, 1988 when James L. Harvey took captive nearly 60 people, mostly children, inside the West End Christian School in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States. The siege came to an end when Harvey was shown a videotape made by Alabama Governor H. Guy Hunt in which the governor said that he would be granted a pardon and immunity. However, the promise was considered to have been written under duress, and thus carried no legal weight and was part of a ruse into getting him to"
"city limits in Stateline, Nevada. On May 18, 1987, Herbert James Coddington was arrested for the murder of two women and the kidnapping of two teenagers. He was found guilty of these crimes and sentenced to death in 1988. In 1991, Jaycee Lee Dugard (age 11) was abducted from a bus stop in South Lake Tahoe; she was found alive in Antioch, California, in 2009. South Lake Tahoe is served by a major east-west highway, U.S. 50, which links the area with Sacramento, California and Carson City, Nevada. The Lake Tahoe Airport serves general aviation while the closest scheduled passenger"
"standing with their compatriots within Black Liberation Army. On January 27, 1972, the Black Liberation Army assassinated police officers Gregory Foster and Rocco Laurie at the corner of 174 Avenue B in New York City. After the killings, a note sent to authorities portrayed the murders as a retaliation for the prisoner deaths during 1971 Attica prison riot. To date no arrests have been made. On July 31, 1972, five armed individuals hijacked Delta Air Lines Flight 841 en route from Detroit to Miami, eventually collecting a ransom of $1 million and diverting the plane, after passengers were released, to"
"1977 Washington, D.C. attack and hostage taking The 1977 Hanafi Siege occurred on March 9–11, 1977 when three buildings in Washington, D.C. were seized by 12 Hanafi Muslim gunmen. The gunmen were led by Hamaas Abdul Khaalis, who wanted to bring attention to the murder of his family in 1973. They took 149 hostages and killed radio journalist Maurice Williams. After a 39-hour standoff, the gunmen surrendered and all remaining hostages were released from the District Building (the city hall; now called the John A. Wilson Building), B'nai B'rith headquarters, and the Islamic Center of Washington. The gunmen killed 24-year-old"
"racketeering, murder, conspiracy, credit card fraud, and drug trafficking, on August 27, 2002. He was sentenced to 50 years and is currently incarcerated in ADX Florence, Colorado. O. G. Mack Omar Portee, aka O. G. Mack or Godfather Mack (born c. 1969), was born in New York and was involved in creating the United Blood Nation (UBN). In 1987, Portee claimed to have witnessed Don Taylor shoot Terrance Joyner on a Bronx, New York street in the early hours of August 16, 1987, causing Joyner's death. Based on Portee's eyewitness testimony, Taylor was convicted on April 25, 1989 and sentenced"
"Missouri, where they commandeered another car and took its driver Walter Griffith hostage as well. Both Killingsworth and Griffith were released later that night at Lee's Summit near Kansas City. Unknown to either Richetti or Floyd, while they were driving across Missouri, bank robber Frank Nash was being transported by train from Arkansas to Kansas City where his partners attempted to free him from custody. A shootout resulted, referred to as the Kansas City Massacre, which left Nash and four of his guards dead. Eyewitness accounts were inconsistent and various men were identified in the aftermath including Harvey Bailey and"
"Platte Canyon High School hostage crisis The Platte Canyon High School hostage crisis was a hostage taking and shooting at Platte Canyon High School in Bailey, Colorado, on September 27, 2006. The gunman, 53-year-old Duane Roger Morrison, took six female students hostage and sexually assaulted them, later releasing four. When police broke open the classroom's door with explosives, Morrison opened fire with a semi-automatic pistol before shooting hostage Emily Keyes in the head. The other remaining hostages escaped unharmed, and paramedics confirmed that Morrison had committed suicide shortly before police were able to enter the classroom. Keyes was pronounced dead"
"was without money, and had no ability or experience to earn a decent wage and, consequently, took on menial work. Below is a timeline of events which occurred on the evening of 9 August 1987: By the end of the spree, 19 people had been wounded and seven people had been killed: Dusan Flajnik (53), Vesna Markovska (24), Robert Mitchell (27), Johnny Muscat (26), Gina Papaioannou (21), Tracey Skinner (23), and Kenneth Stanton (21). The events of this day were pieced together after investigation by police, along with the help of Knight himself. At 11.30am on Sunday 9 August 1987,"
"were still ongoing. Atlanta prison riots The Atlanta prison riots were a series of prison riots that occurred at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, USA in November 1987. The riot coincided with a similar riot at the Federal Detention Center in Oakdale, Louisiana. In the Mariel boatlift of 1980, over 100,000 Cubans migrated illegally to Florida. By 1987, about 4,000 of these Cubans were incarcerated for lack of documentation or for committing crimes. On November 10, 1987, the U.S. State Department announced that Cuba had agreed to reinstate a 1984 accord that would permit the repatriation of up to"
"Henry's Pub hostage incident The Henry's Pub hostage incident was a hostage crisis that occurred on September 28, 1990 at Henry's Pub inside the Hotel Durant in Berkeley, California, United States, when Mehrdad Dashti, who had schizophrenia, held 33 hostages for seven hours, terrorizing them and sexually degrading some of them. At about 12:30 am, Iranian born 31 year-old Mehrdad Dashti brought with him 445 rounds of ammunition, and three guns and held 33 hostages for 7 hours in the bar near the University of California, Berkeley. During the incident the hostage-taker issued irrational, delusional demands to the police officers,"
"2014 Sydney hostage crisis The 2014 Sydney hostage crisis, also known as the Sydney siege and Lindt Cafe siege, occurred on 15–16 December 2014 when a lone gunman, Man Haron Monis, held hostage ten customers and eight employees of a Lindt chocolate café located at Martin Place in Sydney, Australia. Police treated the event as a terrorist attack at the time, but Monis' motives were subsequently debated. However, the findings of the Coroner in 2017 deemed the event to be a terrorist attack. The Sydney siege led to a 16-hour standoff, after which a gunshot was heard from inside and"
"the siege. It is unclear whether he had any plan to create a hostage situation at that stage. The situation began at 9:44am AEDT on 15 December (22:44 UTC, 14 December), when Moniswho had entered the Lindt Chocolate Café at 53 Martin Place, Sydney, at 8:33forced Tori Johnson, the manager of the café, to phone 000. The café is located directly across from the Seven News television studios, and near the Reserve Bank of Australia, the headquarters of the Commonwealth Bank, Westpac bank, and Martin Place underground train station. Monis was bearded, wearing a black cap and wearing a black"
"2018 Trader Joe's hostage incident The 2018 Trader Joe's hostage incident occurred in Los Angeles on July 21, when a suspect, fleeing the police, crashed and ran at 3:30 pm local time. Fears of a hostage situation arose. Police were involved by 4:00 pm, and there were reports that the gunman opened fire. A woman was killed during the standoff, as the 28-year-old suspect Gene Evin Atkins, was arrested. The suspect's 76-year-old grandmother, Mary Elizabeth Madison, was shot seven times and was reported to be in critical condition; and another female hostage, the perpetrator's girlfriend, was shot but merely grazed"
"Force was called in to assist in the matter. Nine members of the Special Task Force were flown to Goedemoed Prison. The Special Task Force freed the hostage with the assistance of the negotiator (warder) and the Reaction Unit of Bloemfontein. The two prisoners who held the warder hostage, were wounded, one of them fatally. 14 September 1988 – The Bus Capture at Lesotho. The Pope visited Maseru on the above date. Four members of the Lesotho Freedom Alliance hijacked a bus transporting 74 passengers at the British Embassy. The SAPS Special Task Force was called in to assist in"