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Hijackers Free 87 Hostages in Libya

Continue to hold crew after commandeering jetliner in Sudan

By the Associated Press

Posted Aug 27, 2008 7:29 AM CDT

(AP) – Hijackers began releasing the 87 passengers today at a remote desert airfield in southern Libya, reports the AP, a day after they took control of a Sudanese 737 jetliner as it took off from Darfur. The hijackers continued to hold eight crewmembers. Sudan officials called...   Read full story »

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