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We are asking prayer for safety,well-being and release of the Korean hostages from Taliban terrorists. 2-3 of the hostages have been murdered! Negotiations for release are political, so the process is slow and painful. Please pray for families involved waiting for their loved ones. Thank You for your prayerful support. Hebrews 13:3..Remember the prisoners as if chained with them, and those who are mistreated, since you yourselves are in the body also.

BOISE, Idaho - A longtime sex offender was sentenced to death Wednesday for the 2005 kidnapping, torture and murder of a 9-year-old northern Idaho boy after federal jurors who watched video of some of the brutality deliberated just three hours. The jurors' recommendation was binding on U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge, who thanked them, dismissed them and then sentenced Joseph Edward Duncan III. Relatives of the victim, Dylan Groene, remained somber as the jury's decision was announced. Duncan murdered Dylan's mother, older brother and his mother's fiance to kidnap him and his younger sister, who was sexually abused along with...

COPS were last night probing a dramatic new “sighting” of Madeleine McCann just FIVE DAYS ago. snip... The woman seemed to be struggling to speak French. And the fact she had a blue-eyed, blonde girl of four or five with her raised the guard’s suspicions. snip.... There are fears that Maddie was snatched to order for Belgian paedophiles.

Three German tourists kidnapped in eastern Turkey Three German tourists were kidnapped in Turkey's eastern province of Agri, CNNTurk reported on Wednesday. They were kidnapped by terrorists, it added quoting the governor of Agri. (UPDATED) Three German climbers on Mount Ararat were kidnapped in Turkey's eastern province of Agri, CNNTurk reported on Wednesday. The three, who were party of a 13-member team, were kidnapped by terrorists, it added quoting the governor of Agri

PESHAWAR: In one of the most embarrassing incidents in the history of the provincial metropolis, 25 members of the Christian community were kidnapped when armed men attacked a building in the Christian Colony near the Academy Town on Saturday. "There were a large number of people gathered at around 8 pm and were preparing for worship when armed men broke into the building and picked up 25 to 40 Christians in pick-up vans," a resident of the Christian Colony, Isac, told The News. He said that two of those picked up by the armed men were priests. Sources said that...

A 14-year-old Boise, Idaho, girl has disappeared and is believed to be in danger after meeting a 27-year-old man on the Internet. Police say the girl may be in the Seattle area with the man, who is wanted on a kidnapping warrant. The girl, Saddie "Elaine" Julian, was last seen Wednesday morning. Authorities are asking for the public's help in locating her. She is described as 5 feet tall, weighing 90 pounds, with pale skin, long red hair and a thin build. According to police, Saddie developed an online relationship with Morgan Douglas Jones, 27, of Birmingham, Ala., while playing...

CAMP TAJI, Iraq – Multi-National Division – Baghdad soldiers rescued a kidnapped Iraqi citizen May 8 near Ibrahim Bin Ali, northwest of Baghdad. Soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment “Gimlets,” 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team “Warrior,” 25th Infantry Division, acted on tips from Iraqi Army soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 1st Iraqi Army Division, in addition to tips provided by Iraqi Police and Sons of Iraq (Abna al-Iraq) members. The suspected kidnappers were detained and are being held for further questioning. “U.S. soldiers, in full partnership with Iraqi Security Forces, are aggressively pursuing criminals and terrorists,...

For Immediate Release April 30, 2008 The faith-based organization TEAM, located in the United States, announces that it has arranged for an aircraft operated by a medical non-governmental organization in Chad to fly to Bardai to receive Steve Godbold, who has been detained by rebel forces since October 10, 2007. TEAM also offers to allow a representative of the international media to accompany this flight to observe the process. On April 28, 2008 the President of the MDJT, Mr. Choua Dazi, stated in an interview published by Liberté sans frontières and posted at www.dabio.net that Mr. Godbold is “free” and...

LONG BEACH (KABC) -- A man was kidnapped from his Long Beach business Thursday. A short time later, his family received a phone call demanding a large ransom. …It has now been just about 24 hours since that man was abducted from his auto repair shop. His kidnappers are asking for money for his safe return. … Police say at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, three Hispanic men came to the Mr. Auto Body Repair Shop on the border of North Long Beach and Paramount and ushered the owner into a car and drove off. Maurilio Robles, 47, was kidnapped. …...

BAGHDAD — Following a tip, Multi-National Division-Baghdad Soldiers rescued a kidnapped man in the northwestern part of the Rashid District of the Iraqi capital March 18. The tip led Soldiers of Company D, 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division to a building in Bayaa where they found a battered man locked in a room. He was taken to a Coalition Medical Facility for treatment. (Multi-National Division – Baghdad)

CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Qaida in Islamic North Africa claimed responsibility for kidnapping two Austrian tourists last month in Tunisia in an audio recording aired Monday on Al-Jazeera television. A man who identified himself as Salah Abu Mohammed said in the recording that the terrorist group kidnapped the two Austrians on Feb. 22 in retribution for Western cooperation with Israel, but said the hostages were in good health. "We tell Western tourists that at the same time they are flowing into Tunisian lands seeking joy, our brothers are being slain in Gaza by the Jews with the collaboration of the Western...

BAGHDAD — Two CBS News journalists were missing in the predominantly Shiite southern city of Basra, the network said Monday. CBS said all efforts were under way to find the journalists, who were not identified by the network. It requested "that others do not speculate on the identities of those involved" until more information was available. Iraqi police said the journalists were taken away Sunday after masked gunmen entered the Sultan Palace Hotel in central Basra. The police spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to media. "CBS News has been in touch with the...

A U.S. aid worker has been kidnapped in southern Afghanistan. The governor of Kandahar province, Asadullah Khalid, says gunmen abducted the 49-year-old woman and her driver Saturday while they were traveling near the southern city of Kandahar. The American woman was wearing a burqa and was on her way to work. Khalid says the woman had been living in the province for a while. He says she worked for a non-governmental organization focusing on agriculture and development. No group has claimed responsibility yet for the kidnapping and officials are searching for the abductors. The provincial governor called the kidnappers enemies...

Another Laredo family has turned to the media in hopes of obtaining any new information with respect to the whereabouts of a missing relative.Virginia "Vicky" Canales, 44, went missing in July while traveling to Nuevo Laredo to pick up a friend, said Canales' daughter, Cindy Canales. "It's kind of like she went out to get something and never came back," Cindy Canales said about her mother's disappearance. "We hit just about every angle we could," Laredo Police Detective Mario Soria said. "And no leads. She was en route to some business and that's the last time she was heard of."...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30, 2007 – Seven sheiks kidnapped in northern Baghdad two days ago were rescued by soldiers from 9th Iraqi Army Division during a mission yesterday. The mission, supported by U.S. military advisors and soldiers from both 82nd Airborne Division and 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, resulted in the sheiks’ rescue, the capture of four abductors and the death of three extremists. The body of an eighth sheik also was discovered at the scene. The sheiks were taken to a nearby Iraqi army facility, where they received medical attention. Several said they had been beaten with a tire iron. The...

N'DJAMENA, Oct 18 (Reuters) - A U.S. evangelical church missionary working on a U.S. government-backed development project in northern Chad has been kidnapped by rebels, Chadian and U.S. officials said on Thursday. "The governor of the northern BET region has told me that an American priest has been kidnapped in the Tibesti (mountains) by remaining members of the MDJT rebel movement," Secretary of State for the Interior Abderamane Djasnabaille told Reuters. "The rebels took his vehicle and they are holding him at Zoumri," he added. A leader of Chad's Evangelical Church, Pastor Ngardei Bako, identified the kidnapped American as Steve...

SAN JOSE - The man who kidnapped and tried to sexually assault a 12-year-old San Jose girl Monday deliberately struck her with his car before abducting her, police said today. The girl fought off her attacker and managed to get away, but is still hospitalized with severe injuries, police said. Police said the girl and her younger sister were crossing the street as they walked home from a store near Gardendale Drive and Barbara Way about 4:15 p.m. when the man pulled his car forward and hit the girl. She landed on the hood of the car, which was described...

British forces help free Italians in Afghanistan Last Updated: 1:43am BST 25/09/2007 British special forces were involved in a daring raid to rescue two kidnapped Italians in Afghanistan. Commandos from the Special Boat Service (SBS) joined a multi-national military team led by Italian troops to free the two intelligence officers who have been missing since Saturday. A fierce gun battle broke out when the SBS force ambushed the kidnappers as they tried to move the Italians in two four-wheel drive vehicles. One of the Italians was seriously wounded while the other has non-life threatening injuries. At least nine of the...

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's presidential office denied a Taliban claim on Saturday that it had paid a ransom of more than $20 million for the release of 19 Christian missionaries held hostage in Afghanistan. "We deny any payment for the release of South Korean hostages," said an official at the presidential Blue House.

Kidnapped German freed in Kabul Mrs Meier appeared in a video hours before her release A German woman who was kidnapped at gunpoint from a restaurant in the Afghan capital Kabul has been released. Reports say Christina Meier was freed during a police raid on a house on the outskirts of the city, and a number of her suspected abductors were arrested. Earlier, the aid worker was seen in a video released by her captors and broadcast on Afghan TV. A German foreign ministry spokeswoman said the aid worker was now at the German diplomatic mission in Kabul. The BBC's...

Taleban rule the road in Ghazni Alastair Leithead BBC News, Ghazni, central Afghanistan Thunder echoed around the wide valley announcing the arrival of a blinding sandstorm that rushed along the roads and down corridors between tall, impenetrable mud compounds. The hostages could be held in as many as 15 separate villages The dust whipped up around the police - dozens of them, all heavily armed - who accompanied us to the place where the South Korean church volunteers had been kidnapped. They tentatively showed us where they think the 21 survivors are being held. In two weeks, two hostages have...

South Korean officials have begun their first face-to-face talks with Taleban militants on the fate of 21 Christian hostages, Afghan officials say. The talks were being held in the city of Ghazni, a senior official in the province told the BBC. The official said he was optimistic about the outcome of the talks. Two of the South Korean hostages have been killed, and the Taleban say they will kill more of them if a number of militants are not released from prison. Earlier the Taleban said the Afghan government had provided a written promise of safe passage to two of...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5, 2007 – Iraqi National Police rescued a female Iraqi army soldier who had been kidnapped yesterday by suspected extremist militia group members in the Bubasham area of Baghdad, officials in Iraq reported today. The woman, a nurse for the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, was kidnapped early in yesterday morning. Her kidnappers wore Iraqi National Police uniforms. “She said they kidnapped her because she worked for the ‘dirty group’ and they wanted to ‘clean her,’" said Army Capt. Thomas Vogan, a U.S. intelligence advisor for the 3rd Battalion, 4th Brigade, 1st Division National Police...

JACKSON, Miss. -- A 5-month-old baby girl was kidnapped at gunpoint Saturday morning near Mantachie in northeast Mississippi's Itawamba County. The Mississippi Highway Patrol issued an Amber Alert following the kidnapping, which happened around 11:30 a.m. The FBI and the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation joined the search Saturday afternoon. Authorities consider the child to be in danger and said the kidnapping suspects could be headed to Atlanta. Itawamba County sits on the border with Alabama and is about 60 miles from the Tennesseee state line as well.

LISBON, Portugal — The home of a British man was being searched Monday by police looking for missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann, who disappeared in Portugal on May 3. The man, Robert Murat, was taken to a police station. His mother told Sky News that he has not been arrested. She said no trace of Madeleine had been found at the villa. The property is just 150 yards from the apartment where Madeleine's family were staying, in the southern Portuguese resort of Praia Da Luz. ... McCann vanished May 3 after her parents left her, and her brother and sister, both...

I Will Never Leave a Fallen Comrade Lest We Forget… Is the US Army doing all it can to recover this kidnapped soldier?Ahmed Altaie is an Iraqi American working as a military translator. Ahmed is called a “man of peace” who wants to help both his native Iraq and his adopted country, the United States. He has a quiet nature and heart of gold and is always respectable to all that he meets. He loves music and plays keyboards. Prior to his joining the Us Army, Ahmed went to an Aviation Technical school to become an Airframe and Powerplant Mechanic....

The head of the United Nations body mandated to protect press freedom called on Tuesday for the release of BBC journalist Alan Johnston who was abducted in the Gaza Strip three weeks ago (March 12th). BBC Says Reporter 'OK' BBC says received assurances kidnapped reporter is 'okay' / Associated Press (VIDEO) BBC's Middle East Bureau Editor Simon Wilson holds news conference week following Alan Johnston's abduction in Gaza. 'As time passes, we are growing increasingly concerned about Alan's safety,' Wilson says Full Story “When a journalist is abducted, the whole of society is taken hostage,” UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural...

BRUNSWICK, Ga. — The body of missing 6-year-old Christopher Barrios was found around 4 p.m. near the Brunswick, Ga., airport, police confirmed Thursday Christopher had been missing since last Thursday. His body was found about two miles from his home.

<p>An SAS team has been sent to Africa to rescue five Britons kidnapped in Ethiopia should diplomatic efforts fail to secure their release, according to reports.</p> <p>Sixty soldiers have already arrived in neighbouring Dijibouti, the Daily Mirror newspaper reported this morning. The Ministry of Defence has refused to comment.</p>

The Iranian general’s arrival at Ataturk international airport on a flight from Damascus is recorded at border control, but he never reached the hotel. Instead, he booked himself into the more modest and cheaper Hotel Ghilan. He left his luggage in the room, walked out of the hotel – and vanished.

Italy arrests man for locking up "lively" wife Wed Feb 28, 2007 11:02 AM GMT ROME, Feb 28 (Reuters Life!) - Italian police arrested a jealous husband in the north of the country who forced his young wife to stay at home for two years because she was "too lively" to be let outside."She was too lively. She absolutely had to be locked up otherwise who knows what she might have done," Egyptian immigrant Emad Zied, 31, was quoted as saying in Corriere della Sera daily newspaper on Wednesday.His 20-year-old bride, Rasha, was rescued by local police and firemen...

ST. LOUIS - The parents of a kidnapped Missouri boy said Thursday they believe their son was molested during the four years he was missing, and his grandmother claimed his captor had awakened the boy every 45 minutes, apparently as a way to control him. The comments came the same day the man suspected of snatching 15-year-old Shawn Hornbeck in 2002 pleaded not guilty to charges of kidnapping another boy on Jan. 8. Michael Devlin, a 41-year-old pizzeria manager, was accused of taking 13-year-old Ben Ownby just after he got off the school bus in Beaufort. A schoolmate's tip about...

Soldiers Rescue Kidnapped Iraqis from Insurgents Rescue in Al Anbar province nets weapons and munitions. By Multi-National Force – West Public Affairs Office CAMP AL ASAD, Iraq, Dec. 28, 2006 -- U.S. forces rescued two Iraqis who were held captive by insurgents in the Euphrates River-city of Hit, Iraq, on Wednesday.Deployed in Iraq since February, soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 36th Infantry Regiment, 1st Armored Division, rescued the kidnapping victims after pursuing insurgents, who fled in three vehicles.The insurgents escaped on foot after abandoning their vehicles and victims. The soldiers found the victims near the vehicles handcuffed under a...

<p>FORT MYERS, Fla. — A missing month-old boy kidnapped at knifepoint was taken as payment because his parents failed to pay human smugglers, police said Saturday.</p> <p>' parents were brought into the United States illegally from Brazil, but failed to pay the smugglers' entire fee, Police Chief Hilton Daniels said.</p>

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico - U.S. and Mexican authorities are searching for three Americans and two Mexicans kidnapped by dozens of armed men who swarmed a Mexican hunting ranch near the U.S. border. Witnesses told police that 30 to 40 armed men entered the La Barranca ranch late Sunday and took the five men. The ranch, used for deer hunting, is located near the Mexican town of Hidalgo, about 40 miles northwest of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. Erik Vasys, an FBI spokesman in San Antonio, Texas, late Tuesday identified the Americans as Librado Pina Jr., 49, who owned the ranch, and his...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21, 2006 -- A man believed to have first-hand knowledge of a missing U.S. soldier’s whereabouts was the target of a raid conducted today in Baghdad’s Sadr City neighborhood by special Iraqi army forces, working with coalition advisors. The Iraqi troops detained the targeted suspect, who officials believe knows details of the control and movement of Spc. Ahmed Kousay Altaie, who was abducted Oct. 23. Six additional suspected cell members were detained, officials said. Enemy fighters targeted Iraqi forces with small-arms and rocket-propelled-grenade fire. Supporting coalition aircraft received enemy ground fire; coalition aircraft neutralized the threat with...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen in camouflage uniforms seized Iraq's deputy health minister from his home on Sunday, an aide and a neighbor said, the day after another prominent Shi'ite politician was shot dead amid brewing sectarian strife. It was the latest incident over the past week that cast doubt on the loyalties of Iraq's U.S.-trained security forces and came as the Syrian foreign minister flew in for talks likely to focus on aid reaching militants through Syria. A suicide bomber earlier killed 22 people in a Shi'ite town south of Baghdad after luring poor day laborers with the promise of...

Are the cases of missing persons in Kosovo science fiction or consciously closed files? Unexpectedly for many Kosovo crisis observers, proliferation of terrorism and violence resulted with huge number of cases of missing and kidnapped civilians, mostly non-Albanians (especially Serbs): in the summer of 1998, spring 1999 and during 2000. Actually, last reported kidnappings occurred in 2004. Although such acts of terror were well known to local population and local authorities, eccentric doubts could be summarized with only one question: If victims were held in hidden prisons and if after some time they were executed, where are the bodies? Searches,...

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan -- New details have emerged in the case of a U.S. Air Force officer who disappeared mysteriously last month while serving in the far-flung ex-Soviet state of Kyrgyzstan, casting doubt on her claim that she was kidnapped. Maj. Jill Metzger, 33, vanished from a store in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, on Sept. 5, shortly before she was to return to the United States. Three days later, authorities said, she turned up at a farmhouse 20 miles away, her hair dyed and feet bloody, saying she had been abducted, had overcome her kidnappers and had escaped. New facts revealed...

MANAS AIR FORCE BASE, Kyrgyzstan — Before the major went missing, airmen posted in this former Soviet republic had the best of both worlds. They went hiking and horseback riding in the mountains and were driven to town for shopping and dining. All while getting “imminent fire” pay and performing a mission in support of the Afghanistan campaign. But since the mysterious three-day disappearance of Maj. Jill Metzger, the horses are riderless, the shops unvisited — and the troops disgruntled. For the first extended period since Americans built the base in 2001, because of Metzger’s experience and her alleged abduction,...

Today: September 18, 2006 at 3:50:15 PDT Text Message Helps Rescue S.C. Teenager By JEFFREY COLLINS ASSOCIATED PRESS LUGOFF, S.C. (AP) - 0917dv-sc-girl-found A man suspected of kidnapping a 14-year-old girl and keeping her in an underground bunker was charged Sunday with raping the teen, a law enforcement official said. Kershaw County Sheriff Steve McCaskill said Vinson Filyaw had eluded police with an elaborate system of hideouts and bunkers since November 2005 when he was charged with criminal sexual conduct on a 12-year-old girl. He surrendered Sunday morning to police as he walked along Interstate 20 near Columbia, about five...

Once Missing Major From North Carolina Returns To Georgia Base POSTED: 1:28 am EDT September 15, 2006 UPDATED: 1:48 am EDT September 15, 2006 MOODY AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. -- A North Carolina native who told authorities she was kidnapped during a shopping trip in Kyrgyzstan has returned to her Georgia Air Force base. Maj. Jill Metzger was reported missing last week and the same week was found by local officials. She is a native of Henderson, N.C. Metzger arrived at Moody Air Force Base at about 6 p.m. Thursday. She had been deployed to Manas Air Base. Metzger told...

'I thought only of escape. I felt like a poor chicken in a hen house' By Kate Connolly in Berlin (Filed: 07/09/2006) Natascha Kampusch, the Austrian teenager who was held in captivity beneath a garage for eight years, said yesterday she had thought "only of escape" during her imprisonment and dreamed of cutting off her kidnapper's head with an axe. Austrians watch the TV interview on a big screen in a café in Vienna Speaking to the media for the first time since her ordeal ended with her escape two weeks' ago, Miss Kampusch appeared self-confident, witty, articulate and strong-willed....

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Militants freed two Fox News journalists on Sunday, ending a nearly two week hostage drama. One of the former captives said they were sometimes held face down in a dark garage, tied up in painful positions and forced at gunpoint to make videos and say they had converted to Islam. ADVERTISEMENT" Yes No Yes No Yes No Correspondent Steve Centanni, 60, of Washington, D.C., and cameraman Olaf Wiig, 36, of New Zealand, were dropped off at Gaza City's Beach Hotel by Palestinian security officials. A tearful Centanni briefly embraced a Palestinian journalist in the lobby,...

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Girl escapes after being held in cellar for 8 yearsBy Michael Leidig in Vienna     AN AUSTRIAN girl held prisoner in a cellar for eight years was reunited with her parents last night after making a dramatic dash for freedom. Police searching for a man suspected of kidnapping Natascha Kampusch and holding her prisoner said that the alleged kidnapper had committed suicide late last night by jumping in front of a train. Natascha vanished on March 2, 1998, while walking to school in Vienna. She was 10 years old at the time. She reappeared yesterday after leaping out...

Bob Laurence, TV critic for the San Diego Union-Tribune, sent a letter to Romenesko setting forth a couple of reasons for the scant coverage given to the kidnapping in Gaza of two Fox News journalists (via Michelle): ... Fox has deliberately set itself apart from other news media. Starting at the top with Roger Ailes, the Fox sales pitch has been to deride other media, to declare itself the one source of the real truth, the sole source of 'fair and accurate' news reporting. As a result, there's not a reservoir of kinship or good will with Fox on the part of the rest...

On August 14, 2006 two journalists working for FOX News were kidnapped in Gaza City near the Palestinian security services headquarters. Abducted were Steve Centanni, 60, national correspondent for FOX News and cameraman Olaf Wiig, 36, of New Zealand. Centanni joined the network at its inception in 1996. Both men were in the area to cover the conflict between Israel and Islamic terrorists. To date no group has claimed responsibility for the kidnappings. The abduction of the two men has been widely criticized by many in the region's Islamic community. Questions are arising over the blackout of information regarding the...

CNN just cant except that FOX News is a legitimate media outlet and refuses to acknowledge that fellow Journalists have been abducted by terrorists.

Funeral of Eliyahu Asheri, Kidnapped and Murdered by Terrorists 15:07 Jun 29, '06 / 3 Tammuz 5766 by Hillel Fendel The kidnapped youth's funeral has begun, and he will be buried on Mt. of Olives. His body was found overnight near Ramallah, after he was kidnapped and murdered Sunday night. His mother speaks. Roads in Jerusalem will be closed, in honor of the funeral. Eliyahu had not been seen since Sunday night, and only Monday afternoon did it become fairly clear that he had been kidnapped. By then, however, he was already dead - even while volunteers searched throughout Judea...