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I just noticed this news, showing that hostage situations in Iran aren't over:
Update: here's the site for helping Mr. Levinson (via The Jawa Report, which also has a video about the case).
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Former FBI agent held prisoner in Iran
I just noticed this news, showing that hostage situations in Iran aren't over:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The family of retired FBI agent Robert Levinson, who vanished years ago in Iran, issued a plea to his kidnappers Friday and, for the first time, released a hostage video they received from his unidentified captors.Don't be surprised if his captors are linked to the Iranian dictatorship themselves. This is truly abominable, and worst, it shows that even with the release of the American hikers who foolishly went there, the crisis isn't over.
The video message released on the family's website publicly transformed the mysterious disappearance into an international hostage standoff. Despite a lengthy investigation, however, the United States government has no evidence of who is holding the 63-year-old father of seven.
"Please tell us your demands so we can work together to bring my father home safely," says Levinson's son David, seated beside his mother, Christine.
The video plea represents a sharp change in strategy in a case that, for years, the U.S. treated as a diplomatic issue rather than a hostage situation. Christine Levinson, who lives in Coral Springs, Florida, has issued many public statements over the years, but she typically directed them to her missing husband or to the government of Iran.
In the hostage video, which the family received in November 2010, Levinson pleaded with the U.S. government to meet the demands of the people holding him, whom he did not identify.
Update: here's the site for helping Mr. Levinson (via The Jawa Report, which also has a video about the case).
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A third situation is being reported in Paris this afternoon. ** The Kouachi brothers are held up in a building holding a hostage in a small industrial town northeast of Paris. ** Another hostage situation at an East Paris deli – two people are dead....
- What Uncle Barry Had To Say About Yesterday's Iranian Anniversary
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/statement-president-barack-obama-iran Thirty years ago today, the American Embassy in Tehran was seized. The 444 days that began on November 4, 1979 deeply affected the lives of courageous Americans who were...
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Maybe Annette Bening can bring this up while she's over there. from Star Tribune North Dakota family says US journalist is detained in Iran after buying a bottle of wine By DAVE KOLPACK , Associated Press Last update: March 1, 2009 - 4:59 PM FARGO,...
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November 4, 1979 Islamic students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran , Iran , and took 66 American diplomats hostage. Thirteen were soon released, but over 50 remaining were held hostage. President Jimmy Carter applied economic pressure by halting Iranian...