And taking Russian civilians hostage is morally dubious even when Russian troops are destroying your people.

During the Gulf War, Iraq took foreign civilians hostage on an unprecedented scale.

The counter-attacking Iraqi Ba'ath troops took civilians hostage and committed many atrocities.

Mr. Sankoh's forces hold 498 United Nations soldiers and civilians hostage.

They rejected the allegations of having taken civilians hostage, dismissing them as "lies and slander", and blamed the Georgian authorities for the bloodshed.

He takes some civilians hostage and forces them to run the software.

Meanwhile, the practice of taking civilians hostages exists among the officers of Russian and local security agencies in Chechnya.

The Society held a number of civilians hostage in a compound in the American Midwest claiming they were protecting themselves from the Skrulls.

He is a wounded outlaw, a former cavalry officer but that doesn't stop him and his gang holding the town's civilians hostage.

Two months ago, they stunned the nation by taking more than 800 civilians hostage in a Moscow theater.