Another flaw in planning was the apparent failure to anticipate fully that desperate pro-Noriega Panamanians might take Americans hostages.

The United States severed relations with Iran after students seized the American Embassy in November 1979, taking 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.

His group was also involved in holding Americans hostage in Lebanon during the 1980's.

Only the Communists could have kept any Americans hostage.

NOV. 4, 1979 - Islamic students storm U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, holding 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.

Three candidates representing the Students Following the Line of the Imam, the group responsible for holding the Americans hostage for 444 days, were also banned.

And while we wait, he continues to hold hundreds of Americans hostage.

And for spite, the group was holding Americans hostages and sometimes beheaded its captives.

The hijackers held 39 Americans hostage in Beirut for 17 days and killed one.

The idealistic young Iranians who seized the American Embassy that month and held 52 Americans hostage for more than a year, however, wanted a total Islamic revolution.