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MUNICH, 1972
Eleven members of Israel's Olympic team were killed after being taken hostage by Palestinian gunmen at the Munich Games. Two hostages were killed as the Palestinian "Black September" group raided the Olympic village; the remaining nine died amid a botched rescue attempt by German police.
PHOTO CAPTION: A member of the Arab Commando group which seized members of the Israeli Olympic Team at their quarters at the Munich Olympic Village in this Sept. 5, 1972 photo appears with a hood over his face on the balcony of the village building where the commandos held several members of the Israeli team hostage. -
The bus that transported the terrorists and Israeli hostages to the German airbase. -
West German police look over two damaged helicopters Sept. 6, 1972. -
TEHRAN, 1980
A U.S. special forces mission to rescue 53 American hostages from a bunker in Tehran, Iran, ended in failure and the deaths of eight servicemen. The mission had already been aborted due to bad weather and mechanical problems when a helicopter collided with a transport plane at a clandestine staging area near the Iranian capital.
PHOTO: Former hostages board 'Freedom One' on Jan. 28, 1981 at Stewart Airport in New Windsor, N.Y., en route to Washington after a stay a West Point. -
November 9, 1979 file photo showing one of 60 U.S. hostages, blindfolded and with his hands bound, being displayed to the crowd outside the U.S. Embassy in Tehran by Iranian hostage takers. -
This photograph taken of the first day of occupation of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, on November 4, 1979 shows U.S. hostages being paraded by their militant Iranian captors. -
WACO, 1993
A 51-day siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, ended with a fire destroying the structure after federal agents began smashing their way in. Nearly 80 people, including sect leader David Koresh, were killed.
PHOTO:Fire engulfs the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, April 19, 1993. -
A military helicopter flies close to the Davidian Mr. Carmel compound near Waco, Texas in this March 1993 file photo. -
Branch Davidian leader David Koresh shown in this police line-up in 1998 following a gun battle with former Davidians. -
MOSCOW, 2002
Russian counterterrorism forces stormed a theater where Chechen guerrillas were holding hundreds of people hostage. About 130 of the hostages were killed. Families say many of the victims died from a knockout gas pumped into the building before it was stormed. Russian officials have never accepted responsibility for the deaths.
PHOTO: Russian special forces remove hostages from a besieged theatre where Chechen guerrillas were holding hundreds captive in Moscow October 26, 2002. -
Hostages are being evacuated 26 October 2002 in a bus from the theater in Moscow, where Chechen rebels were holding theatre-goers hostage since 23 October. -
A man identified as Movsar Barayev, reported to be a leader of armed Chechens, who seized a crowded Moscow theater Wednesday, right, is seen somewhere inside the theater, in this early Friday, Oct. 25, 2002 image from television by Russia's NTV - whose correspondents were allowed to accompany a doctor inside the theater. -
BESLAN, 2004
A hostage standoff in the southern Russian town of Beslan ended in a bloodbath as Russian commandos stormed a school seized by Chechen militants. More than 330 people were killed, about half of them children.
PHOTO:Men identified as masked police officers hold a suspected hostage-taker in Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia, in this image from television shown on Sunday, Sept. 5, 2004. -
Zaur Dzarasov cries as he, with his mother Emilia, stand in what is left of the gymnasium of the primary school in Beslan, Russia, Monday, May 16, 2005, which was seized with more than a thousand hostages by militants in September 2004. -
Ossetian women sit waiting for news not far from the school seized by attackers in Beslan, North Ossetia, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2004.
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