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	Jeffrey Ake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jeffrey J. Ake (born February 28, 1958) is President and CEO of Equipment Express, an Indiana-based manufacturer of bottled water equipment.
		Ake has been a contractor assisting in the American led reconstruction efforts in Iraq, where, in 2003, his company built a machine that filled containers with cooking oil to be used by Iraqis.
		Ake was the latest of 14 American civilians who have been killed or gone missing since 2004 in Iraq.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jeffrey_Ake (313 words)

	World's Largest Prayer Board Annointed.net News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Top US government officials said they were in contact with the family of Jeffrey Ake, a 47-year old father of four, but there was no fresh word on his fate since a videotape aired yesterday in which armed and masked militants were shown holding assault rifles at his head.
		Ake, wearing an open-collar shirt with rolled-up shirt sleeves, was sitting or kneeling behind a wooden desk and holding what appeared to be a photo and a passport.
		Ake is one of at least 14 Americans who have been kidnapped or have gone missing in the past year in Iraq.
	www.annointed.net /PrintArticle867.html (1501 words)

	IDS: Wife of Iraq hostage asks for call (Region, 04/12/2006) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Liliana Ake revealed that she spoke by telephone with her husband's kidnappers in the weeks after he was abducted near a water treatment plant where he was working outside Baghdad.
		Ake's family and friends had been mostly silent since the abduction, even asking officials in his northern Indiana hometown to call off a public prayer vigil a few days after he was kidnapped.
		Ake said in a statement released by the LaPorte mayor's office that she met Tuesday with family, friends and her husband's co-workers at Equipment Express, the company Ake owns in nearby Rolling Prairie.
	idsnews.com /news/print.php?id=35251 (543 words)

	Jeffry Ake, head of US bottling company, hostage in Iraq - IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Jeffrey Ake appeared in a video on Al Jazeera television, holding up his passport as armed and masked insurgents stood at his side.
		Ake was seized a reconstruction project near Baghdad on 11 April 2005.
		Ake told the South Bend Tribune in an article published a year ago that the company made an integrated system that provided water bottles to be sold in Baghdad, and produced a machine to put edible oil into containers for the Iraqi market.
	www.irc.nl /page/17856 (249 words)

	CNN.com - Wife of kidnapped American: Free my husband - Apr 11, 2006
		Jeffrey Ake, 48, was in Iraq helping to build a water bottling plant on April 11, 2005, when he was kidnapped from a work site near Baghdad.
		Jeffrey Ake was last seen two days later when Arabic-language satellite TV channel Al-Jazeera broadcast a video from insurgents that showed terrorists holding Ake at gunpoint.
		Liliana Ake's statement for her husband's abductors said, "One year ago, Jeff Ake, my husband and father of four, was taken hostage, where he remains today.
	www.cnn.com /2006/WORLD/meast/04/11/ake/index.html (1205 words)

	USATODAY.com - Iraq hostage's wife pleads for his return (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Jeffrey Ake was in Iraq working on a water treatment plant when he disappeared April 11, 2005.
		But the last such call came May 1, she said — 18 days after Jeffrey Ake was last seen in an April 13, 2005, video that showed him being held at gunpoint by at least three people.
		Ake was in Iraq working on a water treatment plant when he disappeared April 11, 2005.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2006-04-11-american-kidnapped_x.htm (755 words)

	SR.com: Bloody day in Iraq
		Al-Jazeera news channel broadcast a videotape of a man that U.S. officials confirmed was Jeffrey Ake, 47, of La Porte, Ind., sitting between three armed and masked men.
		Ake, chief executive of a midsized water-bottling-machinery manufacturer, was kidnapped Tuesday while visiting a factory in northern Baghdad, said a source familiar with the incident.
		Ake held up what appeared to be a picture of his family and, according to the television announcer, asked U.S. officials to save his life by withdrawing troops from Iraq.
	www.spokesmanreview.com /tools/story_pf.asp?ID=64342 (825 words)

	American held hostage in Iraq shown in video \| www.azstarnet.com ®
		In the videotape, Ake is seen sitting at a desk with masked men standing on either side of him holding automatic rifles.
		Ake was kidnapped on Monday in the Baghdad area, embassy officials have said, but the circumstances remain unclear.
		Ake, 47, of LaPorte, Ind., is president and chief executive of Equipment Express, a company in Rolling Prairie, Ind., that makes bottles for water and other liquids, according to the company's Web site.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/70352 (525 words)

	ABC7Chicago.com: One year since Ake abduction, family is mostly silent
		Jeffrey Ake of LaPorte was working at a water treatment plant just north of Baghdad when he was abducted.
		Liliana Ake says she hasn't heard from them in a year and she was encouraged by the release of American Jill Carroll, so she has broken her silence.
		Jeff Ake had run a water packaging company in Rolling Prairie, Indiana, and was working on a water filtration plant in Iraq when he was kidnapped.
	abclocal.go.com /wls/story?section=local&id=4074372 (547 words)

	American Captive Traveled World, Jeffrey Ake Pushed Businessmen To Pitch Wares In Foreign Countries - CBS News
		Ake, 47, was snatched Monday from a water treatment plant near Baghdad, according to officials at the American Embassy.
		Ake built his business in Indiana, but he traveled the world to take his innovations for bottling drinking water and cooking oil to the people and places that needed them most, reports CBS News Correspondent Cynthia Bowers.
		At Ake's ranch-style home in northern Indiana, an American flag fluttered on a pole Wednesday and a yellow ribbon was tied around a tree.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/04/14/iraq/main688053.shtml (738 words)

	CNN.com - American hostage pleads for negotiations - Apr 13, 2005
		Ake's video was broadcast during another day of deadly attacks in Iraq, including a blast near the northern city of Kirkuk that killed 12 Iraqi security guards trying to defuse a roadside bomb.
		Ake was kidnapped Monday at a construction site in Baghdad, but his name was not made public until the Al-Jazeera report Wednesday.
		Ake is president and chief executive officer of Equipment Express, a company in the northwestern Indiana community of Rolling Prairie that makes machinery for packaging liquids.
	www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/meast/04/13/iraq.hostage/index.html (621 words)

	Northwest Indiana News: nwitimes.com
		The family of Jeffrey Ake, the LaPorte businessman taken hostage in Iraq, marked the one-year anniversary of his disappearance by divulging what few details they know about the fate of their loved one.
		From the family's Florida home on Tuesday evening, Loretta Ake, Jeffrey Ake's stepmother, told The Times that her son's captors contacted his wife shortly after he was kidnapped from a water treatment plant outside of Baghdad on April 11, 2005.
		Jeffrey Ake was last seen on April 13, 2005, on a video that aired on Al-Jazeera television.
	nwitimes.com /articles/2006/04/12/news/top_news/92ad6353a948495f8625714d00832a5e.txt (877 words)

	Joy Junction - View Single Post - Laporte Mayor Asks For Continued Prayer For American Businessman's Safe Return
		The tape, Al Jazeera reported (http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exer...4B59144DD1.htm), showed Ake sitting behind a wooden desk and holding what appeared to be a passport and photo identification, as three men pointed their guns towards him.
		Ake pleaded with the US administration to open a dialogue with the "Iraqi resistance" and to work towards saving his life.
		Ake's company was contracted in 2003, the Herald-Argus reported, to build a system to manufacture, label and package water bottles in Iraq to be distributed to the war-torn country.
	www.joyjunction.org /bulletin/forums/showpost.php?p=1228&postcount=1 (800 words)

	One year later, no sign of hostage Ake (Jeffrey Ake taken hostage in Iraq)
		LAPORTE, IN — The fate of hostage Jeffrey Ake remains unknown, one year after the water treatment industry CEO was taken hostage in Iraq, according to an April 10 Associated Press (AP) report.
		Ake, owner and CEO of bottled water equipment and commercial/industrial water treatment supplier Equipment Express in Rolling Prairie, IN, was taken hostage April 11, 2005, and last seen April 13, 2005, as reported by Water Tech Online®.
		Ake was abducted while working on a water treatment plant outside Baghdad; Equipment Express was part of the rebuilding effort in the war-torn country, the report said.
	www.democraticunderground.com /discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2221193 (233 words)

	cbs2chicago.com - Indiana Man Reported Kidnapped In Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ake graduated from the U of I in Urbana-Champaign in 1981 with degrees in both history and psychology.
		Ake started the company in 1995 out of his garage after working 17 years for a firm once owned by his father.
		Among Ake's trips to Iraq was a 2003 project to build a machine that fills containers of cooking oil and a system to provide water bottles sold in Baghdad.
	cbs2chicago.com /topstories/local_story_103112242.html (770 words)

	In the Bullpen » American Contractor, Jeffrey Ake, on Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		U.S. Embassy officials believe the American contractor is Jeffrey Ake who is president and CEO of Equipment Express.
		Even though the demand made by Ake and without question at the pressure of those holding him mentions the United States should open up dialogue with the Iraqi resistence, the United States has actually done so.
		Whether or not this is a group only wanting ransom, a group who will kill Ake or a group who is simply looking to sell him to another terrorist group is not known at this time.
	www.inthebullpen.com /archives/1503 (678 words)

	Statement by Bishop Michael J. Coyner, Indiana Area of The United Methodist Church on the abduction of Jeffrey Ake
		As people of faith, we plead with his captors to realize that Jeffrey Ake is a man of faith in our United Methodist Church at Rolling Prairie, Indiana, and not to harm him.
		According to numerous news sources, Jeffrey Ake, 47, was kidnapped in Iraq and shown on the Al-Jazeera television station.
		Ake is president and CEO of Equipment Express, a LaPorte based company that make machines that fill, label and cap water bottles.
	www.inareaumc.org /e-hum_archives/2005/alerts/alert-04_13_05.htm (250 words)

	FREEDOM EDEN: No Word on Jeffrey Ake's Fate
		The only public reaction from the Ake family came through the city's police chief on April 13 the day he was seen in a video televised two days after he was kidnapped at a water treatment plant near Baghdad saying they were following the FBI's advice in not commenting.
		Even LaPorte Mayor Leigh Morris, an acquaintance of Ake who gave several interviews in the days after the videotape was aired, has not commented since a planned April 15 prayer vigil for Ake was abruptly called off without explanation.
		The only information about Ake came from the videotape broadcast by Al-Jazeera television, which showed him being held at gunpoint by at least three assailants as he held what appeared to be a family photo and a passport.
	freedomeden.blogspot.com /2005/05/no-word-on-jeffrey-akes-fate.html (1813 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Al-Jazeera broadcasts video of Indiana man kidnapped this week
		The U.S. Embassy said the man on the video appeared to be Jeffrey Ake, a contract worker who was kidnapped Monday while working on a water treatment plant near Baghdad.
		Ake, 47, is president and CEO of Equipment Express, whose products include machines that fill water bottles.
		Ake spoke on the video, but only a few words could be heard in the broadcast.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,600125981,00.html (890 words)

	Inc. 500 Entrepreneur Kidnapped in Iraq
		Jeffrey Ake, 47, founder of Equipment Express in Rolling Prairie, Indiana, is believed to have been abducted Monday from the city of Taji, about 20 miles north of Baghdad, where Ake's company had won a subcontract from the U.S. government to filter and bottle water.
		Ake, a father of four, kicked off his career working for his father's company, Electronic Liquid Filters, in 1978.
		The younger Ake and his wife, Lilliana, then went on to found Equipment Express in their Indiana garage in 1998.
	www.inc.com /criticalnews/articles/200504/ake.html (300 words)

	Prayers For U.S. Hostage In Iraq, Indiana Family Stays Quiet On Businessman Reported Kidnapped - CBS News
		Jeffrey Ake's family and the company he runs made no immediate public comments about reports of his kidnapping.
		Ake, 47, is president and CEO of Equipment Express in nearby Rolling Prairie, whose products include machines that fill water bottles.
		American contractor Jeffrey Ake pled for his life after being captured by Iraqi insurgents.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/04/13/national/printable687988.shtml (628 words)

	WBIW.com - State News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Contractor Jeffrey Ake was kidnapped in April and shown on Iraqi Television at the hands of his captors.
		Since it's unclear exactly where ake was being held, it's that much harder to locate him.
		Ake is one of 14 American civilians kidnapped or killed since the war began.
	www.wbiw.com /mt/mt-view.cgi/3/entry/272/print (158 words)

	The Jawa Report: Wife of American Hostage Jeffrey Ake Speaks Out
		The wife of American hostage Jeffrey Ake has spoken out for the first time since her husband was taken hostage in Iraq a year ago today.
		Jeffrey Ake is one of two Americans still being held hostage in Iraq.
		Liliana Ake said she agreed that the Carroll's public strategy worked and "that's why I decided to go public as well."....
	mypetjawa.mu.nu /archives/169876.php (1263 words)

	Kidnapping In Iraq Shocks Northern Indiana City - Local News
		LAPORTE, Ind. -- Those who know Jeffrey Ake were struggling with the news Wednesday that he had been kidnapped in Iraq while working as a contractor there this week.
		The U.S. Embassy said Ake was kidnapped in Iraq on April 11.
		Ake is the owner of Equipment Express, a business in Rolling Prairie, Ind., that manufactures bottling equipment.
	www.theindychannel.com /news/4377387/detail.html (491 words)

	Photo Gallery :: American contractor kidnapped in Iraq
		People leave the home of Jeffrey Ake Wednesday, April 13, 2005 in La Port, Ind. after Embassy officials in Baghdad said that Ake, an Indiana contractor was kidnapped earlier this week while working on a water treatment plant outside of Baghdad.
		Ake was kidnapped Monday, April 11, 2005, while working on a water treatment plant near Baghdad.
		A Police officer keeps the media back as a car leaves the home of Jeffrey Ake Wednesday, April 13, 2005 in La Port, Ind. after Embassy officials in Baghdad said that Ake, an Indiana contractor was kidnapped earlier this week while working on a water treatment plant outside of Baghdad.
	community.theolympian.com /gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=album19 (562 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		Businessman Jeffrey Ake was helping rebuild Iraq when he was kidnapped earlier this week.
		As you say, the struggle to secure Jeffrey Ake goes on here in the capital city, days after a video was aired on al Jazeera with masked militants at his side, guns pointing at his head.
		American hostage Jeffrey Ake called on the U.S. government to engage in dialogue with the insurgents, also for American troops to withdraw.
	edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0504/14/lt.01.html (10586 words)

	Rumors Swirl Months After Man Kidnapped In Iraq - News
		A few signs stand as silent reminders to Ake's continued absence from the community, but the ribbons are fading.
		Ake's wife, Liliana, is still in LaPorte, despite the rumors.
		Jeffrey Ake is officially still missing and considered kidnapped in Iraq.
	www.nbc5.com /news/4611109/detail.html (580 words)

	Steve Quayle News Alerts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A spokesman for the embassy said the man's name was Jeffrey Ake, but gave no further details.
		The video showed the man, named by the U.S. officials as Jeffrey Ake from Indiana, holding up his passport as armed and masked insurgents stood at his side.
		Ake was seized from the site of a reconstruction project near Baghdad on Monday.
	www.stevequayle.com /News.alert/05_Terror/050413.US.hostage.html (360 words)

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