Tran 1 Kenny Tran ENGL-1102-010 February 25, 2014 Assignment 2, 10 Sources Ian Fisher.

Jordanian Company to Quit Iraq to Save Lives of 2 Hostages. LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc., 28 July, 2004. Web. 22 Feb. 2014. This article discusses how Iraqi groups kidnapped hostages from countries to make them withdraw troops from staying in Iraq. An organization called the Group of Death threatened to cut off roads from Jordan and attack Jordanian vehicles. Rami al-Ouweiss, the owner of a construction company in Jordan, pledged to stop working in Iraq because two of his employees were kidnapped. The group that kidnapped the man was called Mujahedeen Corps, and he threatened to behead the men if they dont stop. Ahmed Salama, the father of one of the two hostages, ran a strike with a lot of the people of the community against the construction company and threatened to behead the owner if they dont pull away. Since this incident, many people from other countries, like Kenya and India, have been taken for hostages for the same reason. The United Nation has made a national political conference in Iraq to help discuss and fix the matter. This source adds to the conversation of my topic about hostages since Rush Hour experienced a situation pertaining hostages in each film. Similar to this article, negotiations were offered to release the hostages. Anne Nivat. A Journalist's Near-Death Experience in Chechnya. Nieman Reports, 1 Sep. 2010. Web. 22 Feb. 2014. In this article, the author, Anne Nivat, explains her experience of being kidnapped in Chechnya in 1999. Her family was pulled over by a cop, her Father stepped out the car, and a man got in and drove off leaving the Father behind and had Anne and her Nannys Mother in the back seat. The man had a gun and was Russian. Anne kept asking him who he was and he wouldnt respond, so she called her friend, who worked at an investigative organization, and the man took it from her and hung up. He was about to kill her, but saw that she had a son, so he didnt want to shoot her. They arrived at Grozny, and entered an immigration department. They asked her if she was legalized to visit Chechnya, and you can confirm that by seeing a stamp on the passport. The cop took her passport, which was her only form of identification, but she was legalized to stay there. Somehow, her passport and cell phone was sent in for confirmation, so she was fine. This article related to my topic, since in Rush Hour, SooYung was kidnapped in her car, and was used as hostage. It might have been for a different situation, but kidnapping and car theft are very serious situations, and they relate to my topic of saving hostages. Dominick J. Misino, NYPD Hostage Team.Crisis Negotiators: No Rules in the Life Saving Game. Public Agency Training Council, 2002. Web. 22 Feb. 2014. In NYC, a man named Hector was making love with his ex-wife in an apartment, and he pulled a knife out and held it to her neck, prepared to kill her. ESU SWAT officers watched him from 15 feet away, and whenever they had a possibility of shooting Hector from the window, he used his ex-wife as a human shield. He was talking on the phone with someone that outside of the

Tran 2 apartment in a van, known as the inner perimeter (subject area that separates all of the unnecessary police personnel from the immediate danger area). The ESU officers were both the inner perimeter and outer perimeter (the line that separates the civilian population from the dangers of the incident) in this dangerous situation. The person speaking in the van was the author, also known as the negotiator. His responsibility was to converse and interact with the subject. He tried everything to get a hook (something that is important to the subject. It is something that will give him the will to live) from Hector. He came down with her (with a knife at her neck) talking about how she took his kid and his life was so miserable, since he lost everything. He said either she dies or he dies (the cops shoot him). It was the toughest negotiations the author ever had to dealt with. Out of nowhere, he made a negotiation that solved everything by saying that Hectors daughter needed her Mother and he assure that he gets taken to a hospital to get a hot meal, shower, and god sleep and have plenty of time to kill himself tomorrow. Hector agreed with the solution and let go of her. This article relates to my topic because the only way that the criminals were going to release their hostages was by negotiating. Even though the criminals were never successful in Rush Hour, their actions were still similar to this article. Zhang Yue-bing. On Hostage Self-saving. Tsinghua Tongfang Knowledge Network Technology Co., March 2010. Web. 22 Feb. 2014. This article discussed how important hostage self-saving is in a hostage situation. It states that no matter what happens, whether a negotiation occurs or the criminal has the hostage at gunpoint, the hostage should always be protected, secured, and as far away from the chances of being murdered as possible. The only way those key roles can be possible would be if beneficial conditions were offered to the criminal. The chances of the criminal not murdering the hostage would be if his chances of getting what he wants is high without being betrayed by his negotiators. As a result, citizen self-protection ideas should be strengthened. This article is similar to my topic because in order for the hostages to still be safe and alive, the criminals in Rush Hour had to feel like they were getting closer to what they wanted. Basically, negotiators have to give the criminals the idea that they are winning. Michael J. McMains, Wayman C. Mullins. Crisis Negotiations: Managing Critical Incidents and Hostage Situations in Law Enforcement and Corrections. 4th edition. Matthew Bender & Company Inc., 2010. Print. Expressive demands (demands that involve the need to express intense emotion) and substantive demands (demands that involve tangible that can be traded) are both important in negotiation of a hostage situation. Bargaining leads to crisis intervention in police negotiation, which was a result from the changes of substantive demands to expressive demands. The goal that police needs to aim for would be to maximize rewards, but with minimal costs. Crisis negotiation is not like business negotiations, where two sides bargain in good faith and each get an equal quantity for what they want. High levels of stress interfere with these rational decision makings. One side of the bargaining will have limits to the rationality (less than what they desire). The biggest problem from a police crisis incident would be to save the hostage. This article is similar to my topic because it states how important the strength of a negotiation is. The criminal always ask for

Tran 3 more than they should have, but in the end, the police have to follow up with the negotiation in order to keep the hostage safe. Robert Shuppa, Pamela Schmittb, Kurtis Swope. On the role of the hostage in ultimatum bargaining games. Elseiver. The Journal of Socio-Economics, 30 Sep. 2005. Web. 22 Feb. 2014. The ultimate bargaining game consists of three players (the criminal, the hostage, and the negotiator). The main dispute between players would be the criminal and negotiator, and each player only care about their own monetary payoff. Their goals are to offer the least amount of allowable proportion of the bargaining pie to their responder, and have the responder accept it. An unintentional disadvantageous inequality of the third party (hostage) affects both of the players behavior in the simple ultimatum bargaining game. The hostage always significantly affects the outcome of the bargaining, even though they have no say in the decision-making. This article discusses the fairness and payoffs by examining what the ultimatum game offers and the rejection rate for when the hostage player is present. This article relates to my topic, since the criminals in Rush Hour dont care about fairness, and only want what they were trying to retrieve initially. The negotiators in the films were trying to get what they want too, but they had to think carefully for what they had to offer. Michelle Magnan. How to bargain like a hostage negotiator. LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc., 18 Jan. 2010. Web. 22 Feb. 2014. This article discusses how bargaining like a hostage negotiator can help save a persons job. Terry Waite, a person who taken hostage and is now traveling the world as a hostage negotiator, states that a person needs to convey credibility, relation, and trustworthiness in order to succeed. Steven Mehta, an LA lawyer and mediator, states that there are seven steps to transporting inner high-stakes negotiation skills into the workplace. The steps are to establish open lines of communication with adversaries, identify who is in charge, calm down a raged situation, ask questions to build information for the case, brainstorm a working strategy to resolve the crisis, persuade the advisory to put things in the negotiators perspective, and make sure the negotiator has an exit strategy that will leave both parties satisfied. This article relates to my topic because the hostage situations that Detective Carter and Lee were in helped them perform better in their jobs, which is portrayed in the whole trilogy of the Rush Hour films. The strategies and knowledge they gained from those situations allowed them to utilize it in their cases, which helped them accomplish their missions. David Ansen. Hostage Heat. LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc., 11 Dec. 2000. Web. 24 Feb. 2014. This article relates to my topic, since it discusses a plot of a movie involving hostage situations too. Taylor Hackford is in the process of making a hostage situated film called Proof of Life and no one knows how successful itll be. There is much stereotypical type of scenes that are expected to come about from this movie, but Taylor is ensuring that there will be moments where the audience cant second-guess what will happen. He gives us a K&R (kidnap and ransom) type of storyline, which would make this movie highly similar to Rush Hour. Rush Hour

Tran 4 consist of Juntao kidnapping Soo Yung and requesting millions of cash from Consul Han, in order to get his daughter back safe and alive. The people who play the actors for this movie have to have specific characteristics, which is similar to Rush Hour because not everyone could be the funny guy and can fight at the same time. Im not sure if this movie Proof of Life is real, but if it is, it is a high supporter of the hostage crisis seen in Rush Hour. Blackwell Publishing. Swiss Hostage Freed. Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 20 Aug. 2009. Web. 25 Feb. 2014. This article discusses how western Swiss hostages were released from an Islamic Terrorist group called the AQLIM (Al-Qaeda in the Land of the Islamic Maghreb) and a clash between them and the US army. Three of the four men that were taken hostage were released, but the one that wasnt released was beheaded because the negotiator from Malian that was fighting for him refused to pay a ransom of five-million-euro. Dozens of men from the army were killed in the clash between Malian army and Al-Qaeda fighters. The government officials of both sides met and decided upon a peace agreement. This article relates to my topic, since it demonstrates how much an organization will do to protect a hostage(s). In Rush Hour, when Soo Yung was getting close to being murdered, her Fathers policemen and FBI agents risked their lives to ensure that she stays alive. Many people were killed, but police force ended up getting their way, saving the hostage and putting the criminals in jail. Kenny Tran. Assignment 1. Observation Assignment. 25 Feb. 2014. Essay. This assignment relates to my topic because it discusses the main focus of the hostage situations encountered in Rush Hour. In each Rush Hour film, there is someone who is held hostage because a criminal wants possession of something that will make them rich. They show that the only way a criminal would give up their hostage would be by negotiating. Once they get what they want, they either hand over the hostage or play the bad guy and keep them for other purposes. The observations in this assignment only describe one hostage situation in one of the films, but each of the films actually holds a hostage situation at the end. Each film basically holds a typical hostage situation. The objects the criminals want to obtain will either make them rich or have special values to the country, which would be worth millions of cash. The saviors of the films always make negotiations to obtain the hostages back, but the criminals are always sly and try to take another path that will avoid them from having to give-up the hostage, and then they get what they want.