Three American women
Funny how everyone thought that pirates taking an American ship captain hostage was huge news and a national security crisis, and President Obama received plaudits for ordering Navy SEALs onto the scene with a brief to use deadly force to rescue the hostage — yet there’s next to no attention being paid to THREE American journalists, all women, being held hostage by far more dangerous criminals.
Euna Lee and Laura Ling are being held by the criminal regime of Kim Jong-Il in North Korea.
To be clear: an eyewitness account says that the North Koreans took two American journalists hostage in a criminal cross-border raid, just as Hamas took Gilad Schalit hostage and Hezbollah took Regev and Goldwasser hostage (well, in the latter case, took their bodies hostage, as the two Israelis were murdered in the kidnap attempt).
In Iran, another American has been taken hostage — in this case, the sham trial has already concluded, and the woman is in an Iranian prison.