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Bush's strongest card with the Iranians may be his contacts with Algeria, whose intercession helped win the release of the American hostages in the U.S. embassy in Iran. Algeria's Ambassador to Beirut, Khaled Hasnawi, helped negotiate the stay of execution, using Algerian intelligence officers as his mediators with...
Hizballah later named five prisoners held in Israel that it wants released, then issued a statement claiming to have "nothing at all to do with the hostage issue." Even so, Israeli officials interpreted the decision not to execute Cicippio as proof that their gamble was paying off, and that the...
But it is still far too early for the U.S. to draw firm conclusions about Rafsanjani. Virtually everything in the region is so riddled with confusion that no one last week could say for sure whether Higgins was executed on Monday, as his captors claimed, or months ago and the...
In the end, even agility, patience and firmness may not be enough to thread a way through the thicket of obstacles that block freedom for the hostages. For all George Bush's best efforts last week, the only things certain for now are that he has headed off another terrible...
After Israel kidnaps a Shi'ite leader, terrorists announce the execution of one American and threaten another. George Bush works diplomatic channels and ponders a military strike, but the painful fact remains: the U.S. still has no effective way to deal with hostage taking. This time, however, there is a...