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  Military tactics, arms helped rescue Alabama hostage

  Within hours after an armed, angry man shot a school bus driver and kidnapped a 5-year-old boy, workers feverishly unloaded boxes packed with percussive grenades, military C-4 explosives and an array of guns from a windowless DC-9 that had landed just miles from the suspect's isolated compound.

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  FBI: Alabama abductor engaged in 'firefight' with officers

  The man who held a 5-year-old boy captive for nearly a week engaged in a firefight with SWAT agents storming his underground bunker before he was killed during the rescue operation, the FBI said Tuesday night. Also, bomb technicians scouring the property found two explosive devices, one in the bunker, the other in a plastic pipe negotiators used to communicate with the man.

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  Boy safe, abductor dead after Alabama standoff

  A five-year-old boy is safe and his abductor is dead after FBI officers stormed an underground bunker in Alabama where the child was being held for nearly a week.

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  Alabama standoff: Man shoots bus driver, takes 6-year-old passenger hostage

  A gunman holed up in a bunker with a 6-year-old hostage kept law officers at bay Wednesday in an all-night, all-day standoff that began when he killed a school bus driver and dragged the boy away, authorities said.