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Report: Discovery Networks Hostage-Taking a Rare Terror Event

*U.S. Violent Terror Rarely Against Media, Capital; Rare for Environmentalists* 

COLLEGE PARK, Md. – A new report by terrorism researchers at the University of Maryland concludes that the deadly hostage-taking incident at the Discovery Communications headquarters in suburban Washington, D.C. meets the criteria of a terrorist act – a rare one for media organizations and the nation’s capital region. Hostage-taking, though, is a familiar pattern in capital-region terror, the researchers add.

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