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  List of kidnappings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yuri: She was going to be kidnapped, but the plans folded when one of the would be kidnappers left the criminal band that would have committed the act, and told her cousin about the plans.
Polly Klaas was kidnapped and murdered by Richard Allen Davis in Petaluma, California, in October 1993.
Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped from her Salt Lake City bedroom on June 5, 2002 and was found alive nine months later in a suburb of Salt Lake City on March 12, 2003.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_kidnappings   (2056 words)

  
 Learn more about List of reference tables in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 True Crimes: Kidnappings
Governor Roosevelt, immediately after reading the report of the kidnapping in his morning paper and before leaving the Executive Mansion, issued instructions to Major John A. Warner, Superintendent of State Police, to place every means at his command at the disposal of the New Jersey authorities.
The Case That Never Dies: The Lindbergh Kidnapping -- by Lloyd C. Gardner -- Charles Lindbergh's baby was taken from his home near Hopewell, New Jersey, in 1932, during the Great Depression when kidnapping neared epidemic proportions.
Realtor Leonard Moskowitz kidnapped; journalists are in on the story but keep it out of the press to lessen the danger to his life.
www.karisable.com /crclasskidn.htm   (782 words)

  
 kidnappings - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
...The crime data consist of all ransom kidnappings occurring in whole or in part within...that occurred in response to the ransom kidnappings, and as reported in the Times for the...fluctuations in the actual incidence of kidnappings, the indexes clearly are biased in...
Family abductions...abductions and the subset of stereotypical kidnappings, Stereotypical kidnappings are defined as nonfamily abductions that are...
Ongoing negotiations with the rebels in 2000 and 2001 were marred by rebel attacks and kidnappings and fighting between rebels and paramilitaries for control of coca-growing areas in Colombia.
www.questia.com /search/kidnappings   (1584 words)

  
 Significant Terrorist Incidents 1961-2003: A Brief Chronology
Kidnapping of U.S. Officials in Mexico, February 7, 1985: Under the orders of narcotrafficker Rafael Caro Quintero, Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique Camarena Salazar and his pilot were kidnapped, tortured and executed.
Kidnapping of William Higgins, February 17, 1988: U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel W. Higgins was kidnapped and murdered by the Iranian-backed Hizballah group while serving with the United Nations Truce Supervisory Organization (UNTSO) in southern Lebanon.
Kidnapping of U.S. Businessmen in the Philippines, January 17-21, 1992: A senior official of the corporation Philippine Geothermal was kidnapped in Manila by the Red Scorpion Group, and two U.S. businessmen were seized independently by the National Liberation Army and by Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
www.state.gov /r/pa/ho/pubs/fs/5902.htm   (10852 words)

  
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 List of reference tables - Gurupedia
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 Kidnapping Wave Sweeps The Nation
The kidnapping of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., topping a long list of kidnappings in recent years, serves to emphasize the fact that abduction for ransom has become "a big money crime," taking its place beside the liquor, vice and drug traffic among the prominent "rackets" of the country.
During these two years kidnapping syndicates have arisen and have extorted millions of dollars from their victims or their relatives and friends by means of torture or terrorization.
Recalling recent kidnapping by extortionists, who strike at big money by seizing helpless victims, authorities here said yesterday it might be such a gang as that reported operating here last year which took the Lindbergh baby.
www.charleslindbergh.com /ny/18.asp   (489 words)

  
 List of reference tables   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 Please release my friend Daniel Pearl   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Daniel was kidnapped in the Pakistani city of Karachi while he was researching a story on Islamic groups, and went to meet two contacts in a restaurant.
No one read or heard of the great battles being fought between Hizbollah and the occupying Israeli army in the south of the country – save, of course, from Israel itself – and the terrible suffering of the Palestinian camps under siege by a Lebanese militia was a story largely untold.
The Hizbollah, around which these kidnap groups floated like satellites, now acknowledges that hostage-taking was a major blunder, an own goal of the worst kind, quite apart from the inhumanity of imprisoning the innocent and threatening their lives.
www.ccmep.org /hotnews/please020402.html   (860 words)

  
 Preventing Kidnappings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Kidnapping is one of a parent’s greatest fears.
This list should be very short and include only people that would have a legitimate reason to be picking your child up.
The percentage of children kidnapped by a stranger is very low; usually they know their kidnapper in some way.
pages.zdnet.com /momsaidso/preschoolarticlearchives/id12.html   (695 words)

  
 Latin American briefs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- A day after police boasted of a decline in kidnappings, three daylight abductions raised suspicions that police officers were involved.
Among the victims: Eduardo Gouvea Vieira Filho, the son of millionaire Eduardo Gouvea Vieira, head of the Ipiranga oil group and president of the Rio de Janeiro State Federation of Industries.
On Tuesday, the state security chief, police Col. Nilton Cerqueira, announced that the number of kidnappings in Rio had dropped to four in September from 12 the previous month.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/95/10/27/latin.html   (453 words)

  
 The Morning News - Designer Kidnappings, by Crissa-Jean Chappell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Enright requires at least two preliminary interviews with potential victims to agree on the kidnapping’s basic ingredients and give him a sense of their psychological fears.
The kidnappings often take place on Manhattan’s streets in broad daylight, yet nobody has bothered to intervene on a victim’s behalf.
By introducing the victim as a character, Enright’s theory is that his kidnappings involve two kinds of action: the scenes that happen while the narrator watches them and the scenes that the victim remembers or imagines.
www.themorningnews.org /archives/personalities/designer_kidnappings.php   (1347 words)

  
 Society Fresh : Article 'Susana Gimenez'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Faked kidnappings Author Agatha Christie, whose disappearance in 1926 was feared to be a kidnapping.
Other kidnappings Edgardo Mortara a six-year-old Jewish child kidnapped by Pope Pius IX in 1858 on the claim that a passing housekeeper had secretly baptized him.
Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli nuclear whistleblower, abducted by Mossad in Italy and brought back to Israel, where he was convicted of treason and espionage, and served 18 years in prison, 11 years in solitary confinement (1986).
www.society-fresh.net /DisplayArticle945774.html   (1191 words)

  
 WizbangTech   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In the interest of honesty, my blog is listed twice under blogspot defectors, once as "ham fisted theatrics" and again as DC Pierson's weblog.
Glenn makes an honorary appearance in the Running List Of Blogspot Defectors, since he was on Blogspot for one whole day.
That list may or may not put me in a large group of the citizenry, I don't know and I'm not really interested in finding out.
www.aylwardfamily.com /content/200305archive001.asp   (9613 words)

  
 TheTexts.com Text Resources, Online Library, References, Free Encyclopedias, eBooks, Dictionary, Web Publishing, Net ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
List of terms relating to algorithms and data structures
List of winners of the Nobel prize for economics
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www.thetexts.com /lists_by_topic.html   (878 words)

  
 CNN.com - Transcripts
As we said he was kidnapped and beheaded, because South Korea did not meet his demands.
Jim, as we're looking at this ever-growing list of kidnappings and beheadings, do you think that they're effective or the fact that the negotiations are not taking place, is going to send a message that it does not help one's cause to do this?
Because in light of Paul Johnson in terms of his kidnapping and his beheading, there was this big run on who they say was responsible for it and a number of people were killed.
edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0406/23/lt.03.html   (3563 words)

  
 The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - World
Nearly all kidnappings staged by the Abu Sayyaf in the past have ended up with payments of so-called "board and lodging" expenses incurred on the captives, the unofficial term used by the Muslim rebel group for ransom.
Others in the list included Columbia which topped the list with 979 kidnappings for ransom cases, Mexico with 402, former Soviet Union with 105, Brazil with 51, the Philippines with 39, Nigeria with 24, India with 17, Ecuador and Venezuela 12 each and South Africa with 10 cases.
The latest case, says Wall Street Journal involves 21 foreign tourists and resort workers kidnapped by a Muslim guerrilla group from a Malaysian diving resort and held in the Philippines, adding in 1998, four engineers were kidnapped for ransom in Chechnya and beheaded.
www.tribuneindia.com /2000/20000513/world.htm   (3822 words)

  
 Mexico No. 2 in world for kidnaps   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A report by an anti-crime group says Mexico's kidnap rate is second only to Colombia's.
Mexico moves to the top of the list in kidnappings that have no other motive than illicit profit,
kidnapping victims want first and foremost to see their loved ones back home safe.
www.latinamericanstudies.org /mexico/kidnaps.htm   (948 words)

  
 M - Appendix B: Background Information on Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations
The following descriptive list constitutes the 36 terrorist groups that currently (as of 30 January 2003) are designated by the Secretary of State as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs), pursuant to section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996.
Linked to the Kashmiri militant group al-Faran that kidnapped five Western tourists in Kashmir in July 1995; one was killed in August 1995 and the other four reportedly were killed in December of the same year.
Elements of the group were responsible for the kidnapping and detention of US and other Westerners in Lebanon in the 1980s.
www.state.gov /s/ct/rls/pgtrpt/2002/html/19991.htm   (10014 words)

  
 JPRI Working Paper No. 101
According to An, when he asked who the woman was, one of his classmates told An and other students that she was kidnapped from Japan when she was a teenager and had been carrying a badminton racket at the time of her capture.
Here was a group of innocent Japanese citizens, kidnapped from their homes by an evil regime in North Korea, a regime that a spineless Foreign Ministry and certain “traitors” in the left-wing media and Diet had coddled for years.
The National Association for the Rescue of Japanese Kidnapped by North Korea, and core members like Katsumi Sato, played a key role throughout the abduction drama, keeping the families’ spirits up when they were depressed, rallying the support of sympathetic politicians, planning strategy, and working tirelessly to get the story out to the media.
www.jpri.org /publications/workingpapers/wp101.html   (15918 words)

  
 Militants kill US soldier held captive in Iraq since April : HindustanTimes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Meanwhile, the father of a US Marine who was reported kidnapped by militants on Monday issued a plea for his release.
One civilian driver, Thomas Hamill, was kidnapped but escaped from his captors nearly a month later.
His abduction came amid a wave of kidnappings in which dozens of foreigners were snatched.
www.htcricket.com /news/181_856952,00050004.htm   (968 words)

  
 Viewer List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This was the first test of Yahoo's recommendations tool, which suggests titles based on your ratings of movies you have seen.
I forgot to add this title to the list after watching it, which should tell you something.
But this story of a kidnapping gone wrong wasn't as cool or surprising.
www25.brinkster.com /wasoxygen/viewers.asp?Viewer=1&Year=2005   (2966 words)

  
 Using elimination theory for clues- The Times of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The easiest way to locate the most probable suspects of any such high-profile kidnapping case is to scan the list of previous kidnappings in the region to shortlist gangs which have a modus-operandi similar to that of the incident under probe.
But what had made the task of STF and Lucknow police more Herculean than it would have been otherwise is the fact that most of the probables fit into the frame of 'theory of elimination' based on need of finances by them.
Vineet recently got a kidnapping done despite being in jail and collected the ransom worth lakhs at his prison cell itself.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/664935.cms   (373 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - 13 foreigners reported kidnapped in Iraq   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Armed with assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, the kidnappers shouted "Allahu akbar" — God is great — in the video and held knives to the throats of the blindfolded Japanese, who screamed and whimpered in terror.
Two Arab residents of east Jerusalem — one an Israeli citizen working for a U.S. aid group — and seven South Korean Christian missionaries were detained Thursday, though the Koreans were released.
News of the kidnappings of the two Arabs came in video footage from Iranian television, rebroadcast on Israeli television.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2004-04-08-iraq-kidnappings_x.htm   (882 words)

  
 Kidnappings of foreigners in Iraq : HindustanTimes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A list of foreigners known, or reported, to have been seized in Iraq and are still in captivity or have been killed:  
Their bodies are found on a road between Falluja and Ramadi, west of Baghdad, on June 12.
June 17: Kim Sun-il, a South Korean businessman, is kidnapped in Falluja.
www.hindustantimes.com /news/181_856953,00050004.htm   (405 words)

  
 Appendix B -- Background Information on Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations
Engages in kidnappings for ransom, bombings, beheadings, assassinations, and extortion.
In April of 2000, an ASG faction kidnapped 21 persons—including 10 Western tourists—from a resort in Malaysia.
The HUA kidnappings in 1994 by Omar Sheik of US and British nationals in New Delhi and the HUA/al-Faran kidnappings in July 1995 of Westerners in Kashmir were two of several previous HUA efforts to free Azhar.
www.state.gov /s/ct/rls/pgtrpt/2003/31711.htm   (10720 words)

  
 List of reference tables Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
List of reference tables Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com
You usually find a collection of reference tables in the back of almanacs, dictionaries and encyclopedias (or an index of them, if they're scattered throughout the work).
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 The Jim Steinman Mailing List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
If you got everyone together and locked them in a room for six months, you'd probably end up with five sequels to every one of Jim's projects, four weddings and funerals for 70% of the population, as well as a new hyper-charged fuel made out of enthusiasm, emotion, and unwillingly extracted bodily fluids.
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The list averages about 30 messages a day.
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