Kidnapping

Return to Baghdad: A Near Kidnapping Outside Karrada (Time.com)

October 11th, 2010

Time.com - After a surprisingly uneventful tour of Iraq, TIME’s former bureau chief and a former U.S. soldier run into potential trouble

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Mexican mayor found dead 3 days after kidnapping (AP)

August 18th, 2010

A soldier burns seized weapons from drug smugglers at the Secretary of the Defense headquarters in Mexico City, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010. Mexico's drug gang violence has surged since President Felipe Calderon intensified the fight against traffickers in late 2006, deploying thousands of troops and federal police to root out cartels from their strongholds. More than 28,000 people have since been killed in the country's drug war. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)AP - The kidnapped mayor of a northern Mexican town was found dead Wednesday, extending a rash of deadly attacks on political figures in an area besieged by drug gang…

Haiti tosses kidnapping charges against Americans (AP)

April 26th, 2010

FILE - In this March 8, 2010 file photo, US missionary Laura Silsby, 40, of Meridian, Idaho, is escorted by police officers upon her arrival to the courthouse in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. A Haitian judge has dropped kidnapping charges against all 10 U.S. missionaries detained for trying to take children out of the country after the Jan. 12 earthquake. But Silsby, the only missionary still in jail, still faces a charge of organizing the illegal transport of 33 children in the chaos after the disaster. The charge carries a maximum penalty of three years in prison. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix, File)AP - A Haitian judge said Monday he has dismissed kidnapping and criminal association charges against 10 American missionaries detained for trying to take a busload of children out of…

German ‘gang of retirees’ sentenced in kidnapping (AP)

March 23rd, 2010

AP - Three German retirees who lost $1.4 million in the financial crisis and kidnapped their American investment adviser in an attempt to recoup the money were convicted Tuesday, with…

Kidnapping reflects fears of Pakistan minorities (AP)

March 22nd, 2010

In this photo made on March 19, 2010, Surjeet Singh, from Pakistan's Sikh community, kisses his son after his release in Peshawar, Pakistan. Singh, who had been kidnapped for ransom by alleged militants, was freed after 42 days as a result of a crackdown operation by security forces. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)AP - Five Sikh men who fled their hometown on the Afghan border were making a quick trip back home when masked men blocked their way with a pickup on…

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