A phone line is set up between the hostage taker and the team.

The information was provided three weeks before the hostage takers made their decisions.

"You seem to think she's like every other hostage taker."

All hostage takers with a real cause must want that."

However, no official contact could be established with the hostage taker.

"It can only make the hostage takers angry," he continued.

I'm sure they were focused on containing the hostage taker.

"That female hostage taker was found in the water, wasn't she?"

The motives of hostage takers have so far been for financial gain.

Six hostage takers and two passengers lost their lives in the operation.

All of this raises certain questions about the way governments deal with hostage takers.

Law enforcement officers killed 38 of the hostage takers and injured 204.

"Aside from the fact the first hostage taker was female?

"Then you already know what the hostage takers want."

I assume the hostage takers have some way of monitoring that we're actually on the air.

Both of the hostage takers were killed in the takedown.

They'd been chasing down every scrap of information about the hostage takers.

The police freed the hostages and killed one of the hostage takers.

Officials said nine hostage takers had been killed immediately.

That's what the hostage taker said on the radio.

But the statement added that the government still did not know whether he "explicitly was one of the hostage takers."

The hostage taker only moved a curtain occasionally to see what was going on outside, but never let go of the baby.

In all of them, the hostage takers had eventually talked to Bollman.

The motives of hostage takers vary from political to profit.

A government official said the first tentative leads to make contact with the hostage takers were coming together.