True or False: Reasons for acquiring hostages include publicity, use as a bargaining chip while executing other crimes, the forcing of political concessions, and ransom. (Antiterrorism Scenario Training, Page 1)

The answer is true

Explanation:

Hostage is the act where by a terrorrist group of group of illigal people sieze and restrict the movement of another person or group inorder to achive an already mapped objective.

Most times, the reasons for acquiring hostages by the hostages takers could be to use the hostages as a bargaining chip while executing another crime, for publicity, for political concession e. t. c

The prominent case of hostage event was the Stockholm bank robbery and hostage crises in 1973 carried out in Stockholm, Sweden. The event was the first to happen in Sweden was covered by the news casters as the events unfolds.