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I know we traded arms for hostages.

Raymond Patterson

Seeing three of our four friends was very distressing. We are really asking the kidnappers to consider what they are doing and what this is doing to the [hostages'] families.

Allan Slater

All the hostages are safe and well. We suppose we are very lucky, not having any injuries.

Rene Lindenlaub

We are in touch not only with the hostage takers but with the hostages themselves.

Remi Oyo

The commander has said there will be no military solution to release the hostages. I don't agree.

Sitiveni Rabuka

We have become their hostages.

Viktor Ishayev

[The extremists holding the hostages now were in an] escape mode, ... The fact is that (the militants) are fleeing and they have not left any hostages as casualties.

Angelo Reyes

We are trying to do it this week. Once we have come to an agreement on everything, obviously the hostages can go home.

George Speight

This cat would have always been in charge, ... The family would have been pretty much hostages to it.

Greg Johnston

I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.

Lucan

World art treasures cannot be hostages of legal quarrels.

Boris Gryzlov

The safety of the hostages is paramount to us, and we would not wish to see military action that would endanger their safety.

Graeme Bannatyne

The hostages are so far in good health. They have been scattered around communities.

Jomo Gbomo

The lack of electricity has a heavy destabilizing effect on the hostages and it can be a real security problem.

Steven Anderson

Right before the intervention, they (the hostages) were bound and then their captors left their building.

Peggy Gish

We are prepared to do something dramatic again. Don't forget, we took over parliament and held hostages for what we believed in.

Jo Nata

We are essentially hostages of the embassy at the present time now. We've been here 48 hours without being able to leave.

James Sasser

Eight gunmen were killed and five hostages were freed.

Vladimir Kolesnikov

We were outside on this movie every single day so we were hostages to the weather.

Anthony Minghella

We are working around the clock with the Iraqi authorities and foreign missions to win the release of all the hostages.

Elizabeth Colton

We hope that in the next few hours, or thereabouts, we will get more concrete information about these hostages.

Edilberto Adan