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	Aircraft hijacking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rather, most aircraft hijackings are committed to use the passengers as hostages in an effort to obtain transportation to a given location, to hold them for ransom, or, as in the case of the American planes that were hijacked to Cuba during the 1970s, the release of comrades being held in prison.
		Hijackings for hostages have usually followed a pattern of negotiations between the hijackers and the authorities, followed by some form of settlement -- not always the meeting of the hijackers' original demands -- or the storming of the aircraft by armed police or special forces to rescue the hostages.
		A lone hijacker armed with a.22 sawn-off rifle and a knife in flight on Ansett Airlines flight 232 from Adelaide to Alice Springs with 28 passengers and a crew of 4.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aircraft_hijacking (2955 words)

	Aircraft hijacking - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		In the September 11, 2001 attacks, the use of hijacked planes as suicide missiles changed the way hijacking was perceived as a security threat — though a similar usage had apparently been attempted on Air France Flight 8969 in 1994.
		One task of airport security is to prevent hijacks by screening passengers and keeping anything that could be used as a weapon (even smaller objects like nail and boxcutters, for example) off aircraft.
		The first hijack of a commercial airliner probably happened on July 16, 1948, when a failed attempt to gain control of a Cathay Pacific seaplane caused it to crash into the sea off Macao.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=2075 (1199 words)

	Aviation Security International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The woman had been involved in an incident a month earlier in which she is alleged to have slapped a female flight attendant and thrown water in her face after being told not to use her mobile phone during takeoff and landing.
		The May "hijack" was not his first attempt; on a flight from Hobart to Melbourne in January 2003 he had also tried to gain access to the cockpit but was stopped by the locked door and a crewmember.
		Initial reports of the incident had indicated that the office was seized in an armed attack and that hostages had been taken; no hostages were seized, nor were any weapons involved.
	www.asi-mag.com /air_watch/may-jun-jul2004.htm (2925 words)

	Georgia
		In the string of incidents, Zurab Gogberashvili, a former policeman convicted of murder, was severely beaten in a mass brawl and killed with a self-made knife.
		In June Bishop Levan Pirtskhalaishvili, secretary to Patriarch Ilya II, wrote to the owner of a Tbilisi stadium warning him not to rent the venue to the Jehovah's Witnesses for a meeting due to negative public reaction; the event was subsequently cancelled.
		In Tbilisi the state of voter registration lists was so poor that there were instances where several hundreds of citizens, often residents of the same block of apartment buildings, could not vote.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2002/18366.htm (15036 words)

	Russian Plane Hijacked in Turkey
		Turkish Transport Minister Enis Oksuz said that the plane was hijacked by two men with knives, and that one of the crew members had been injured in the takeover.
		"The hijackers asked for some water and for the area of the airport where the plane is parked to be lit up in return for handing over the wounded person on board," the official said.
		According to an unconfirmed report from Qatar television, the hijackers injured three of the passengers "in order to prove that they are serious." However, an airport official said that the hijackers had released the women, children, and the elderly.
	www.ict.org.il /spotlight/det.cfm?id=578 (737 words)

	Saudi Special Forces Liberate Hijacked Russian Plane
		A hijacker, an air stewardess and a Turkish passenger died in the raid.
		A Russian official said that the hijackers were Chechens, whose demands are "not very clear and are linked to the war in Chechnya." A Russian diplomat quoted prior to the assault said that the leader of the hijackers was a "highly trained military officer who appears to know what he is doing."
		In a statement sent to AFP, the office of Chechen President Maskhadov said that according to information from Jordan, the hijackers had demanded that Russian forces cease all military activity in Chechnya, and that a videocassette in their possession, proving mass human rights violations be given a public airing.
	www.ict.org.il /spotlight/det.cfm?id=580 (702 words)

	Concerns in Europe: November 1993 - April 1994
		These massacres were in addition to frequent incidents in which civilians have been killed in Sarajevo by shells, mortar bombs or sniper fire, in many cases probably as a result of either deliberate targeting of civilians or firing indiscriminately without selecting military targets.
		They had placed him in their car to drive him home but he had started to punch and slap himself, claiming that if his father were to find out he had been stopped by the police he would be beaten; he then suddenly jumped out of the car.
		The death penalty was abolished in 1991 for aggravated hijacking of an aircraft, and in 1993 for gross embezzlement of state or social property and for taking a bribe.
	www.amnestyusa.org /justearth/document.do?id=52788AD9AFEE3E41802569A600604D9F (19204 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Report of the Secretary-General on the situation in Abkhazia, Georgia ...
		The most serious incident occurred on 5 June when two UNOMIG military observers, one UNOMIG medic and their Georgian interpreter were taken hostage by an unidentified armed group on the third day of a routine patrol of the Georgian-controlled upper Kodori Valley.
		With the exception of the hostage incident, the situation in the Kodori Valley was relatively calm.
		I strongly condemn the hostage-taking incident of 5 June 2003, which is the sixth such incident since the establishment of the Mission in 1993.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/6ad7e15ec7cc825785256d6c006fabe5 (3138 words)

	ABKHAZIA.ORG - Shevardnadze
		In 8 minutes, right in front of the parents, the 'special force' rendered the hijackers harmless...right in front of those very parents who were beseeching you to give them permission to go on board the plane and who were assuring you that they would be able to bring their children out.
		It follows that the 'hijackers' who had only intended to hijack a plane and hitherto had committed no crime could in no wise be labeled with the status of a 'band'.
		The passes were apportioned to the various districts and institutions of Tbilisi allowing people to attend once only in order to give the impression of a large number of observers, whereas in fact it was only groups specially chosen by the government who had the right to attend from start to finish.
	www.abkhazia.org /shevy.html (4480 words)

	Title:
		Analysis of The Rand Database of Contamination Incidents reveals that food is the preferred target of contamination for terrorists and criminals.[37] Food was the target of contamination in 45 percent of the incidents.
		of the 195 incidents in an extract of the database, 20 resulted in at least one death, 80 were incidents that had the potential to cause fatalities, and 24 resulted in at least one injury.
		The most highly lethal incident was a 1985 case in Lebanon, in which Palestinian terrorists reportedly drugged the tea of Amal movement members and of soldiers, and then slaughtered them.
	www.gettysburg.edu /~dborock/courses/Spring/int-sec/docs/stern_terrorists&poison.htm (6782 words)

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		Some of the alleged incidents appear to have been inadvertent or to have resulted from U.S. personnel's lack of understanding about how sensitive Muslim detainees might be to mishandling of the Koran.
		When Korans were delivered to the prison, he said, guards issuing the holy books "would put them on the floor and a lot of the devout Muslims went nuts right away." Later, guards allowed detainees to cradle their Korans in surgical masks hung from the mesh walls of their cells.
		But we have an implicit lie when the Commission, in its discussion of the 19 alleged suicide hijackers, omits the fact that at least six of them have credibly been reported to be still alive, or when it fails to mention the fact that Building 7 of the World Trade Center collapsed.
	nucnews.net /nucnews/2005nn/0505nn/050522nn.txt (21117 words)

	Protecting Public Surface Transportation Against Terrorism and Serious Crime: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		BART has never had a terrorism-related incident; the dissemination of mace by a disgruntled passenger is the most serious incident ever to plague this regional transportation agency.
		In the event of an incident, the train operator, circulating patrol officer, or station attendant is expected to notify the operations control center (known as Central) in Oakland.
		Further incidents of chemical contamination resulting from accidents at the cult's chemical plant on Mount Fuji might have alerted authorities to the sect's activities, but Japan's decentralized policing structure and reluctance to interfere with religious groups hampered investigations.
	transweb.sjsu.edu /publications/terrorism_final.htm (14909 words)

	Dispatch Supplement VOL. 3, NO 6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Hazardous Military Incidents Mechanism was invoked for the first time on January 14, 1992, by Portugal on behalf of the EC in the wake of the downing of a helicopter carrying an EC monitor over Yugoslav territory.
		There were a number of violent incidents directed against Gypsy communities during the last year, and public authorities have generally not acted to defend them or sought to prosecute leaders of anti-Gypsy mob violence.
		During the period under review, no incidents were reported of deliberate, official denial to Soviet scientists of the freedom to establish and maintain direct contacts with professional colleagues in other countries.
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/briefing/dispatch/1992/html/Dispatchv3Sup6.html (20716 words)

	Committee on International Relations, U.S. House of Representatives
		The 9,000 to 12,000 armed members of the FARC engage in bombings, assassinations, indiscriminate mortar attacks, kidnapping, extortion, hijacking, as well as guerilla and conventional military action against Colombian political, military, and economic targets.
		While the focus of these workshops is to effectively respond to WMD terrorist incidents overseas, some are customized to address host government needs based on their perceived threat.
		The composition of the FEST varies, depending on the nature of the incident (such as a hostage situation, an embassy bombing, or a chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) incident).
	wwwc.house.gov /international_relations/108/blac0326.htm (5592 words)

	Radicus Internet - News of the U.S. military (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		TBILISI, Dec 15 (AFP) - A first battalion of Georgian troops trained in anti-terrorist techniques under a 64-million-dollar US training programme marched in the centre of the capital Tbilisi for the first time Sunday.
		TBILISI, April 30 (AFP) - United States military deployed in Georgia on Tuesday to train local forces in counter-terrorism, prompting a subdued response from neighbour Russia where nationalists are furious about the move.
		TBILISI, March 21 (AFP) - A first contingent of US military instructors is expected to arrive in Georgia by next Monday, Georgian Defence Minister David Tevzadze said Thursday.
	www.radicus.net /news/listall/usa.military.asp (12149 words)

	Selected Literature and Authors Pages - Georgian Literature
		Problems of the German Literature and Culture in the Georgian press of the Twenties of the 20th Century.
		Modernism on the Periphery Literary Life in Postrevolutionary Tbilisi.
		Chapter Three: The Main Contents of the Monograph: On the Scholarly Value of Research on Georgian Literature in Europe.
	learning.lib.vt.edu /slav/lit_authors_georgian.html (936 words)

	lawnorder: 03/01/2003 - 03/31/2003
		The incident began when a group of Chechen rebels contacted a Russian television station and boasted of its ability to construct a radiological weapon (the Chechen separatist leader, Dzhohar Dudayev, said his followers already had 'a nuclear weapons capability').
		There have also been incidents at nuclear sites the IAEA was not permitted to investigate, where looters were reported to have emptied hundreds of containers of nuclear material.
		The incident generated about 3,500 cubic meters of radioactive waste.Actual fatalities were relatively light in the Brazil incident, but panic was widespread.
	lawnorder.blogspot.com /2003_03_01_lawnorder_archive.html (11068 words)

	Printed Version
		BHHRG viewed a piece of film footage showing a representative of Revival being blocked from entering a building the party had reserved in the town of Borjomi, and being pushed and manhandled by Citizens' Union thugs until he agreed to leave the area altogether.
		Another interesting incident occurred at Polling Station No. 16 in Batumi where BHHRG representatives witnessed an old woman screaming at the top of her voice, complaining that she was not being allowed to vote.
		The chairman said her documents were not in order and that she was apparently registered to vote in Tbilisi.
	www.bhhrg.org /Print.asp?ReportID=112&CountryID=10 (3253 words)

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		In a separate incident, a group of Catholics — among them the Apostolic Administrator Bishop Giuseppe Pasotto - who were on pilgrimage in eastern Georgia on 3 July were physically attacked by a group of people reportedly sent by two Orthodox priests.
		Torture Has Become a Common Practice TBILISI, GEORGIA - Giorgi Janashia, head of the Reform and Monitoring Unit of the Penitentiary Department, states that 137 injured prisoners were sent to the Ministry of Justice during the first five months of the year.
		The verdict was abolished with the assistance of a lawyer from “42nd Article of the Constitution.” Defendant Declared Sane TBILISI, GEORGIA - Police allegedly desired that Grigol Khurtsilava, suspect in the murder investigation of Giorgi Sanaya, plead insanity to avoid punishment.
	ishrg.tripod.com /newsletters/7-41.doc (4777 words)

	The St. Petersburg Times - News - Hijackers Grab Vnukovo Flight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		RIYADH - A Russian airliner carrying 174 people was hijacked by men claiming to be Chechens after takeoff from Istanbul on Thursday and forced to fly to Saudi Arabia's holy city of Medina.
		A Saudi official said the hijackers had released women and children and he was confident the drama would end soon.
		Original Turkish reports spoke of two hijackers, but the head of the Russian crisis team said that he believed that there were actually four hijackers.
	www.sptimes.ru /story/14800 (694 words)

	The Changing Faces of Terrorism within the Russian Federation - Tamara Makarenko (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The hijacking of a Vnukovo Airlines aircraft flying from Istanbul to Medina, Saudi Arabia last March by Chechen sympathisers, combined with April's hostage-taking incident at Istanbul's Swissotel Bosphorus by pro-Chechen gunmen, have drawn international attention to the spectre of terrorism emanating from the Russian Federation.
		Consequently, the international media has focused almost exclusively on the activities of Chechen militants, but this only provides a partial analysis of how terrorism is developing in these regions.
		Although the region has witnessed sporadic terrorist incidents in Dagestan and North Ossetia-Ingushetia, the most intense terrorist campaigns have emerged alongside the continuing conflict in Chechnya.
	www.cornellcaspian.com /pub/18_0107Terrorism.html (2392 words)

	down with murder inc
		After years of negotiations, Tbilisi struck a deal on May 30 with Moscow on the pullout of Russian bases in Georgia's Black Sea port of Batumi and the southern city of Akhalkalaki by 2008.
		The incident ended peacefully but exposed Europe's vulnerability to a Sept. 11-style hijacking and the difficulties in coordinating a multinational response to a fast-breaking terrorist threat.
		Germany recently passed a law that gives the defense minister the authority to open fire on a hijacked plane, but the measure is being challenged in court.
	www.declarepeace.org.uk /captain/murder_inc/site/nato.html (15698 words)

	Radical Islam and LNG in Trinidad and Tobago by Candyce Kelshall
		Therefore, any incident involving an LNG tanker along the Caribbean routes could harm not only U.S. energy security but also the economies of the Caribbean islands, affecting tourism and other industries.
		In a circumstance such as this, consideration should be given to the co-ordination and communication issues that a terrorist hijacking of one of these vessels would create.
		Special handover radar procedures and joint jurisdictional crisis teams should be established to deal with an incident as a hijacked LNG tanker will affect any number of nations along its route.
	www.iags.org /n1115045.htm (2522 words)

	Catastrophic intelligence Failure - Clinton's Bin Laden GATE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In 1995, the CIA and the FBI learned that Osama bin Laden was planning to hijack U.S. airliners and use them as bombs to attack important targets in the U.S. This scheme was called Project Bojinka.
		Three weeks before the attacks, the CIA and FBI reportedly knew that two of the hijackers, including one with a link to the bombing of the U.S. destroyer Cole last October, were in the U.S. But they were not apprehended.
		First of all, it was not the case that all of these hijackers simply got visas, were trained at civilian US flight schools and managed to slip through without a CIA background check.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/535793/posts?page=59 (12428 words)

	NucNews - May 13, 2003
		But the September 11 attacks, and incidents involving near neighbor North Korea such as the 1998 launch of a ballistic missile that overflew Japan, helped to convince many Japanese that their defense arrangements were inadequate.
		Both incidents occurred around the time the Pentagon announced it was sending 21 B-1 and B-52 bombers to Guam in response to the growing threat of North Korea and the latest crisis over Pyongyang's nuclear arms program.
		Since the incident, air crews patrolling the DMZ have been required to wear eye protection intended to thwart any laser attacks.
	nucnews.net /nucnews/2003nn/0305nn/030513nn.htm (20834 words)

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		That incident, which occurred on 25 August, started when local police captain Sergei Semidotskii opened fire on patrons in a bar in the village of Yaroslavl, killing four people on the spot and injuring 11 others.
		Party leaders said they agreed on the main points of a joint declaration that will be made public next week but have not yet discussed, let alone selected, their joint candidate.
		PM [68] KOSOVAR HIJACKING ATTEMPT THWARTED The personnel of a Montenegrin Airlines flight from Duesseldorf to Prishtina thwarted an attempt by a young Kosovar Albanian to strangle a stewardess with his shoelace on 29 August, AP reported.
	www.hri.org /news/balkans/rferl/2002/02-08-30.rferl (8427 words)

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		During the storming of the aircraft by Saudi special forces, Magomersaev and Iriskhan Arsaev, both ethnic Chechens, were captured and a third hijacker and a Russian stewardess were killed (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 16 and 19 March 2001).
		Volin added that the sentences for the hijacking is much milder than routine Islamic verdicts for theft and that such decisions make Saudi Arabia appear to be "a sanctuary for terrorists." VY [05] SPECIAL ENVOY SUPPORTS PUTIN ON KALININGRAD...
		In a discussion of the increasing violence and kidnapping of foreign citizens in Georgia, Prosecutor-General Nugzar Gabrichidze said that "too much freedom of speech caused an increase of crime" and called for a serious effort to combat such crimes, noting that such violence has led to "harsh criticism" of Georgia by the international community.
	www.hri.org /news/balkans/rferl/2002/02-08-01.rferl (7317 words)

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