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  Chicago Guard unit rescues hostage
Fairuz Yamucky, 38, climbed into a Black Hawk helicopter operated by pilots based at Chicago's Midway Airport looking weary, but smiling and chatting as the crew strapped her in to the combat aircraft.
Because coalition forces were still interviewing her, details about her reported capture and eventual rescue, reportedly with the aid of an Iraqi national, were not known.
Yamucky works for GSF Cement and Sand Co., which is doing business largely in Baghdad.
www.buzztracker.org /2004/09/23/cache/343966.html   (418 words)

  
 Canadian hostage safe. - No BS Martial Arts
The Chicago newspaper, in report placelined "Northern Iraq", described Yamucky as weary but smiling and chatting as the crew strapped he into the Black Hawk combat helicopter that flew her to safety.
Fairuz Yamulky is now in the hands of U.S. military troops who are tending to her medical and psychological wounds, her sister said.
Fairuz climbed into a U.S. military Black Hawk helicopter Tuesday night looking weary, but smiling and chatting as the crew strapped her in to the combat aircraft.
www.bullshido.net /forums/archive/index.php/t-16901.html   (1273 words)

  
 Foreign hostages in Iraq - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Naji al-Kuwaiti, was taken hostage April 28, 2004, and released May 4.
Fairuz Yamucky was abducted on September 6 2004, but rescued by a US National Guard unit sixteen days later.
Scott Taylor, was a journalist abducted by Ansar al-Islam in Tal Afar on September 9; he was released five days later.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Foreign_hostages_in_Iraq   (3331 words)

  
 Good News Blog » Canadian woman rescued in Iraq
Fairuz Yamucky, 38, a cement company employee, was ferried out of the area Tuesday by a Chicago-based National Guard unit.
The Chicago newspaper described Yamucky as weary but smiling and chatting as the crew strapped he into the Black Hawk combat helicopter that flew her to safety.
Army Maj. Michael Duck confirmed Yamucky had been held for 16 days, though she was not on any official missing persons list.
www.goodnewsblog.com /2004/09/22/canadian-woman-rescued-in-iraq   (430 words)

  
 Bear Pit Political Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Fairuz Yamucky, 38, was ferried to safety by a Chicago-based National Guard unit on Tuesday, according to the report.
The newspaper reported her surname to be Yamucky, but Reuters news agency spelled it Yamulky.
Yamucky, who is a Canadian citizen, works for GSF Cement and Sand Co., which is doing business mainly in Baghdad.
www.bearpit.net /index.php?showtopic=2467   (4507 words)

  
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Fairuz Yamucky, 38, was flown out of the area in a Black Hawk helicopter which had been on a routine mission on night patrol, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
The U.S. army confirmed that Yamucky was held for 16 days, though she was not on any official missing persons list.
Yamucky works for GSF Cement and Sand Company which does business in Baghdad.
www.giantdwarf.com /id735_m.htm   (7478 words)

  
 CBC News: Kidnapped Canadian woman saved in Iraq
NORTHERN IRAQ - A U.S. National Guard unit assisted in the safe return of a Canadian woman who said she was held captive for 16 days in northern Iraq.
Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre Pettigrew said Ottawa was aware 38-year-old Fairuz Yamulky had been kidnapped and had been working on the case.
Yamulky, who had lived in Calgary, was flown out of the area in a Black Hawk helicopter which had been on a routine mission on night patrol, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
www.cbc.ca /story/world/national/2004/09/22/iraq_canadian040922.html   (853 words)

  
 Iraq Update September 22 | The Agonist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
LONDON, Sept 22 (Reuters) - The United States embassy in Iraq confirmed on Wednesday that a decapitated body found in Baghdad was that of the American hostage Jack Hensley.
The Canadian Fairuz Yamucky, who was kidnapped in Iraq two weeks ago, has been freed and is in the hands of U.S. troops, Canadian Foreign Minister Pierre Pettigrew said.
Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said an Australian hostage crisis team was returning from Iraq with no evidence that two Australians had in fact been taken hostage and threatened with execution, as alleged by a group of militants.
www.agonist.org:81 /story/2004/9/21/20343/8111   (12522 words)

  
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A Canadian woman who was missing for two weeks was rescued in northern Iraq on Tuesday by U.S forces.
A report says 38-year-old Fairuz Yamucky climbed into a Black Hawk helicopter looking weary but smiling and chatting as the crew strapped her in to the combat aircraft.
Because coalition forces were still interviewing her, details about her reported capture and eventual rescue were not known.
www.cfra.com /headlines/index.asp?nid=19746&cat=3   (169 words)

  
 IRAQ UPDATE September 23 | The Agonist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
We're very relieved with this happy resolution," Pettigrew told CTV television after it emerged that 38-year-old Fairuz Yamulky was safe.
CTV spelled her surname Yamucky but foreign ministry officials later said this was incorrect.
News of Yamulky's release was broken by the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper, which had a correspondent aboard a U.S. helicopter on Tuesday night when it was asked to fly to a northern desert location to pick up the woman.
www.agonist.org:81 /story/2004/9/23/24946/5536   (17624 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iraqi women 'not being released'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A Canadian woman kidnapped in Iraq has reportedly been released after 16 days in captivity.
Canadian Foreign Minister Pierre Pettigrew told Canadian television that Fairuz Yamucky was freed by US troops on Tuesday night, the AFP news agency reported.
More than 100 foreigners have been abducted in Iraq over the past 17 months, as part of efforts to destabilise the US-backed interim government and to drive out foreign troops.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/middle_east/3680120.stm   (653 words)

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