The agency concluded that 125 hostages remained in captivity nationwide of whom 66 were being held by the FARC-EP.

The two clans of gods fought battles, concluded treaties, and exchanged hostages ( Freyr and Freyja are mentioned as such hostages ).

In 1990 he garnered attention when he was involved in a mission to Iraq which successfully concluded with the freeing of some Italian technicians who were hostages of the local government.

After some negotiation the parties concluded an armistice and agreed on capitulation ( onorevole capitolazione ), whereby the castles were to be evacuated, the hostages liberated and the garrisons free to remain in Naples unmolested or to sail for Toulon.

The Peace of Nicias concluded with Sparta recovering its hostages and Athens recovering the city of Amphipolis.

Their report concluded that the number of gunmen who stormed the school was 32 and laid much of the blame on the North Ossetian police, stating that there was a severe shortcoming in security measures, but also criticizing authorities for under-reporting the number of hostages involved.

On the day of his inauguration, in fact, 20 min after he concluded his inaugural address, the Islamic Republic of Iran announced the release of the hostages.

The US Senate ’ s 1992 report concluded that " by any standard, the credible evidence now known falls far short of supporting the allegation of an agreement between the Reagan campaign and Iran to delay the release of the hostages ".

The House of Representatives ’ 1993 report concluded “ there is no credible evidence supporting any attempt by the Reagan presidential campaign — or persons associated with the campaign — to delay the release of the American hostages in Iran ”.

According to the rules of the Treaty of Lieserhofen, concluded on December 27, 1252 he had to give his sons Meinhard II and Albert to Phillip as hostages.

Based on interviews with more than a hundred sources, including several cabinet officials, the book concluded that U. S. foreign policy since 9 / 11 was driven by the Bush Doctrine, which is most fundamentally described by a quote from Vice President Dick Cheney saying that it was important for the U. S. to think of “ low probability, high impact events ” — like terrorists or rogue states getting their hands on WMD — “ in a new way .”

It concluded that its agents had explored many radical groups, " such as the Union of Russian Workers, the I. W. W., Communist, etc .... and from the result of the investigations to date it would appear that none of the aforementioned organizations had any hand in the matter and that the explosion was the work of either Italian anarchists or Italian terrorists.

Sciascia was part of a House of Deputies investigation into Moro's kidnapping, which concluded that there was a certain amount of negligence on the part of the Christian Democrat Party in their stance that the state was bigger than a person and that they would not swap Moro for 13 political prisoners, even though Moro himself had stated that the swapping of innocent people for political prisoners was a valid option in negotiations with terrorists.

Lisa Curtis of The Heritage Foundation giving testimony before the United States House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade concluded that " preventing Pakistan's nuclear weapons and technology from falling into the hands of terrorists should be a top priority for the U. S ." However Pakistan's government has ridiculed claims that the weapons are not secure.

Writing for the opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta, she concluded that " the so-called Beslan terrorists were agents of our own special forces – UBOP for Countering Extremism and FSB.

In 1997, the United Nations Committee Against Torture had concluded that hooding constituted torture, a position it reiterated in 2004 after the committee's special rapporteur had " received information on certain methods that have been condoned and used to secure information from suspected terrorists.

It also concluded that the INC " attempted to influence US policy on Iraq by providing false information through defectors directed at convincing the United States that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction and had links to terrorists.

It formed the view that, broadly, " any remark, insult or act the purpose or effect of which is to violate a Jewish person ’ s dignity or create an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for him is antisemitic " and concluded that, given that, " it is the Jewish community itself that is best qualified to determine what does and does not constitute antisemitism.

It concluded that the pilots were properly qualified, and the aircraft was properly outfitted.

The European Commission has acclaimed the register as a good example of a profession's self-regulation, and indicated that member states will find the FEANI register helpful when deciding whether foreign engineers are qualified to practice ; the Commission concluded that engineers on the register " should not normally be required to undertake an adaptation period or sit an aptitude test " in order to practice in European countries.

Points were allocated to a player based on his Grand Slam performances, and after all four Grand Slam events had concluded the 16 players with the most points – 12 in 1998 and 1999 – qualified for the Cup.

The report also concluded that university places " should be available to all who were qualified for them by ability and attainment " ( the so-called Robbins principle ) and that such institutions should have four main " objectives essential to any properly balanced system: instruction in skills ; the promotion of the general powers of the mind so as to produce not mere specialists but rather cultivated men and women ; to maintain research in balance with teaching, since teaching should not be separated from the advancement of learning and the search for truth ; and to transmit a common culture and common standards of citizenship.

In taking account of seventeen years of law practice, Adams concluded that `` no lawyer in America ever did so much business as I did '' and `` for so little profit ''.

She concluded by asking for a brief interview -- `` to settle with you where '' -- and she threw in a tribute to his `` gentle manners '' and `` the wild originality of your countenance ''.

Although the tape was run for over 1 hr., a steady state was not reached, and it was concluded that the reason for this was that the back pressure of the manometer was built up from the material fed from between the blocks and this was available at a very slow rate.

The fundamental difficulty of which the Selden case was `` a striking ( though not singular ) example '', concluded Hough, `` will remain as long as testimony is taken without any authoritative judicial officer present, and responsible for the maintenance of discipline, and the reception or exclusion of testimony ''.

Mr. Nagrin has described four `` places '', each with its scenery and people, added two `` diversions '', and concluded with `` A Toccata for the Young '', a refreshingly underplayed interpretation of rock'n'roll dancing.

Winning the 1951 Best Picture Oscar and numerous other awards, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, featured many tunes of Gershwin, and concluded with an extensive, elaborate dance sequence built around the An American in Paris symphonic poem ( arranged for the film by Johnny Green ), costing $ 500, 000.

He concluded that " the only excuse which I have yet discovered for writing anything is that I want to write it ; and I should be as proud to be delivered of a Telephone Directory con amore as I should be ashamed to create a Blank Verse Tragedy at the bidding of others.

After some delay Sigismund assented to the offer, with the provision that Prussia should be treated as a Polish fiefdom ; and after this arrangement had been confirmed by a treaty concluded at Kraków, Albert pledged a personal oath to Sigismund I and was invested with the duchy for himself and his heirs on 10 February 1525.

The Isles now lay at Alexander's feet, and in 1266 Haakon's successor concluded the Treaty of Perth by which he ceded the Isle of Man and the Western Isles to Scotland in return for a monetary payment.

" The project, later called the Mills Commission, concluded that " Base Ball had its origins in the United States " and " the first scheme for playing baseball, according to the best evidence available to date, was devised by Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown, N. Y., in 1839.

The study concluded that one-on-one lessons in the Alexander Technique from registered teachers have long term benefits for patients with chronic back pain, and that six lessons followed by exercise prescription were nearly as effective as 24 lessons.

On more than one occasion, Judge told the writers that one of their ideas for an episode of King of the Hill would work well for Beavis and Butt-Head ; eventually he concluded, " Maybe we should just actually make some good Beavis and Butt-Head episodes.

However, the US Centers for Disease Control studied the blood of these individuals and concluded there was no evidence the reactions these people experienced were associated with hypersensitivity to the Starlink Bt protein.

The Mitchell Report, commissioned by Selig, concluded that the MLB commissioners, club officials, the Players Association, and the players all share " to some extent in the responsibility for the steroid era.

But in 1939, Robert Oppenheimer and others predicted that neutron stars above approximately three solar masses ( the Tolman – Oppenheimer – Volkoff limit ) would collapse into black holes for the reasons presented by Chandrasekhar, and concluded that no law of physics was likely to intervene and stop at least some stars from collapsing to black holes.

Facing increased competition in the rum market from the now international brand Havana Club, the company concluded that it was important for sales to associate its rum with Cuba.

The study concluded that Prahlad Jani was able to survive under observation for two weeks without either food or water, and had passed no urine or stool, with no need for dialysis.

The same year, a study by the Boston Society for Psychical Research concluded that Chaplin was " an American obsession.

Dr. Al-Kadi concluded that the Arabic word sifr, for the digit zero, developed into the European technical term for encryption.

Dr. Wijdicks studied 30 films ( made between 1970 and 2004 ) that portrayed actors in prolonged comas, and he concluded that only two films accurately depicted the state of a coma victim and the agony of waiting for a patient to awaken: Reversal of Fortune ( 1990 ) and The Dreamlife of Angels ( 1998 ).

Additionally, legal experts at the State Department and Justice Department concluded that a declaration of war could be avoided so long as another legal justification, based on the Rio Treaty for defense of the Western Hemisphere, was obtained via a resolution by a two-thirds vote from the members or the Organization of American States ( OAS ).