# Sucessful Hostage Situations?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sucessful-hostage-situations/79711>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 4, 2001, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sucessful-hostage-situations/79711 "2001-09-04T18:10:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Qwertyasdfg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ecc23a/32.png) [@Qwertyasdfg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwertyasdfg)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2001, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sucessful-hostage-situations/79711/1 "2001-09-04T18:10:04Z")

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Has there ever been a hostage situation in the USA in which the criminals were sucessful?

By “sucessful” I mean able to escape incarceration, or achieveing some kind of political objective such as having a prisoner released, or things like that.

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**Author:** ![therealblaze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9adbd/32.png) [@therealblaze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/therealblaze)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2001, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sucessful-hostage-situations/79711/2 "2001-09-04T18:20:32Z")

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[SDMB:Have hijackers/terrorists ever been successful?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=80364).