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Very good.........most don't remember the train full of islamakazis that created the Stockholm Syndrome decades ago......

Point of information - it was a bank robbery.

On August 23, 1973, Jan Erik "Janne" Olsson, on leave from prison, walked into Kreditbanken at Norrmalmstorg, central Stockholm. Police were called in immediately, two of them went inside, and Olsson opened fire, injuring one policeman. The other was ordered to sit in a chair and "sing something". He started singing "Lonesome Cowboy". Olsson then took 4 people as hostages. He demanded his friend Clark Olofsson to be brought there, along with 3 million Swedish Krona ($360,000 US 2003 value), two guns, bullet-proof vests, helmets and a fast car.
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The hostages still repeatedly claim they were more frightened of the police than the robbers during their six days of confinement. They clearly identify with their unlawful guardians. This leads to academic interest in the matter. The term "Stockholm syndrome" was coined by criminologist Nils Bejerot.
Clark Olofsson has repeatedly committed armed robberies and acts of violence, both before and after the events in 1973, all since he was 16 years old. He was finally released from prison in 1991, but in 1999 he was arrested in Denmark and was sentenced to another 14 years of prison. He has spent some 24 years in prison.

I yeild to yer earlier daate.... I thought it was this incident that "officially started" the SS !

This [the Stockholm Syndrome] was particularly well illustrated in the dramatic and poignant case of Gerard Vaders. Vaders was a journalist who was one of many hostages taken captive aboard a train bound from Groningen to Amsterdam in December of 1975 by seven members of the Free South Moluccan Youth Movement. The terrorists killed the train engineer and executed two hostages in the course of the twelve day siege. The Moluccans had announced that they would carry out regular executions, but clearly they did not have the heart for it. Nevertheless, at one point Vaders himself was marked for execution; the only thing that prevented the Moluccans from carrying it out was Vaders’ “last testimonial”. He had received permission to give a message for his family to one of the other hostages; in the course of this talk, he freely discussed his weaknesses, his failures, his family difficulties. The Moluccans evidently felt empathy for him, perceiving him as a human being rather than a pawn, and decided not to kill him. The tragic aftermath was that they then quickly executed another man in his stead."

Stay Safe.......Y