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A piece inside the WP about the use of songs by law enforcement authorities in hostage situations notes that the music used at Waco against David Koresh "was selected ad hoc from the personal cassettes of FBI agents."
The NYT and Wall Street Journal say they were discovered last Saturday at the Quantico, Va., offices of the Bureau's Hostage Rescue Team, the unit that spearheaded the Waco assault.
President Reagan was concerned because Hezbollah was taking Americans hostage and periodically killing them.
Until the United States can disaggregate, its entire China policy will be held hostage to the most contentious issue of the moment.
One, a December 4 Presidential Daily Briefing for President Clinton (reprinted in chapter 4), brought the focus back to more traditional hostage taking; it reported Bin Ladin's involvement in planning a hijack operation to free prisoners such as the "Blind Sheikh," Omar Abdel Rahman.