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Finland abruptly fell off the map of the European Union included in a half-page advertisement produced by the German government and the EU Parliament and published in German newspapers last week. The German government spokesperson noted that a good deal of Northern Sweden had also gone missing. The Atlantic islands owned by Spain and Portugal are also absent from the map.

WASHINGTON, April 23, 2004 — Defense Department officials announced today a change in the status of a soldier serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom from duty status - whereabouts unknown to captured. Pfc. Keith M. Maupin, 20, of Batavia, Ohio, was declared captured on April 16, 2004. On April 9, 2004 , Maupin and Sgt. Elmer C. Krause, 40, of Greensboro, N.C., were categorized as duty status - whereabouts unknown when individuals using rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire attacked their convoy. Both soldiers were assigned to the Army Reserve’s 724th Transportation Company, from Bartonville, Ill. Krause’s status remains unchanged because...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - A speedboat full of gunmen attacked a boat carrying oil workers in Nigeria's violence-wracked delta region, killing two Americans, the army said Saturday. A Nigerian army spokesman, Maj. Said Ahmed, said the workers died Friday evening in the Niger Delta, where the bulk of the country's oil is pumped. Ahmed did not identify the men or their employer, saying "details are still sketchy." However, U.S. oil giant ChevronTexaco said two American contractors were missing, along with two Nigerian sailors and two civilian boatmen. A third American, a ChevronTexaco employee, was reported hospitalized in stable condition with...

The Danish businessman kidnapped in Iraq has been found dead, the country's Foreign Ministry has announced. The man's body was discovered by Iraqi police on April 12 - the day after he was reported missing. He was snatched by unknown attackers while travelling on a road near the village of Al Taji outside Baghdad. Details about how he died or where was found were not immediately available. The kidnap victim has been named by one Danish tabloid as 35-year-old Henrik Frandsen from Copenhagen. It said he was in the country to open a water purification and electrical appliance store in...

Amber Alert Issued for 3 Year Old North Carolina Girl Posted: Tuesday 04/20/04 8:43 AM CT The Robeson County Sheriff's Office and the N.C. Center for Missing Persons issued the Amber Alert after the girl was abducted from her home in Lumberton early Tuesday. Jai Mya Glover, a black female, 3 yrs., 2' 6", 27 lbs. was abducted from her home in Lumberton North Carolina shortly after midnight Tuesday. She was last seen wearing a white t-shirt and white panties with purple flowers. She also had two bracelets on each arm. Police are looking for four black males who may...

BELGRADE -- Friday – More than 3,200 people in Serbia’s UN-governed province Kosovo are still missing, according to figures released today by the International Committee for the Red Cross. The third edition of the “Book of Missing in Kosovo” was published today in Belgrade and Pristina, and contains the names of 3,272 people missing since the end of the war in the province in 1999. The number of missing has grown by 378 since the second edition of the book was published in 2000. Seventy-nine people have been found alive over the four years. The head of the Red Cross...

BODIES OF 4 MISSING U.S. CONTRACTORS BELIEVE FOUND IN IRAQ. No story yet!

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Kidnappers have released up to 12 foreigners taken hostage in Iraq, a member of the U.S.-appointed Governing Council said Monday. Meanwhile, two U.S. troops and seven employees of American contractor Kellogg, Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Houston-based Halliburton, were missing following an attack "two days ago" on a convoy near Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad, Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez said Monday. He refused to say whether they had been abducted. More than 30 foreigners from at least 12 countries — including a Mississippi man whose fate also was unclear — have been kidnapped in recent days...

BERLIN, April 12 (Reuters) - German aid organisations evacuated their last four workers from Iraq on Monday due to the deteriorating security situation, a spokesman for one of the groups said. The government said two embassy guards feared killed in an ambush last week remained missing. A spokesman for the "Aktion Deutschland Hilft" said the last four members of a 10-person team removing munitions from residential areas left Baghdad on a U.N. aircraft for Amman. He said they hoped to return to Baghdad as soon as possible. The Foreign Ministry said the two elite anti-terror security specialists headed to the...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Two US soldiers and seven US contractors working for a Halliburton subsidiary are unaccounted for in Iraq (news - web sites), Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, the head of US forces in the country, said. Sanchez told reporters in Washington from Baghdad that the seven contractors worked for Kellog, Brown and Root, part of the Halliburton energy and services giant which has major contracts for the US military in Iraq. US military authorities said Friday that two soldiers were missing following an attack by Iraqi insurgents on their convoy near Baghdad international airport the same day. Meanwhile, the...

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Seven civilian contractors working for a subsidiary of Halliburton are missing in Iraq after an ambush on a convoy last week, the Texas-based firm and the U.S. military said on Monday. Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, told Pentagon reporters in video conference from Baghdad the contractors were working for Kellogg Brown & Root, a subsidiary of the U.S. oil services firm run until 2000 by Vice President Dick Cheney. The contractors vanished after an attack on a U.S. convoy in Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad. Two U.S. soldiers also disappeared in the incident. A...

BERLIN: Germany said Sunday that two elite policemen missing in Iraq were probably dead, after a British newspaper said the pair were killed in a gunfire fight with Iraqi rebels near the flashpoint town of Fallujah. There is a "strong probability" that the two men are dead, a German foreign ministry spokesman said. A journalist with Britain's The Sunday Telegraph in Fallujah, where Sunni Muslim insurgents have been locked in fierce fighting with US-led occupation forces, said he had seen the bullet-riddled bodies of the Germans. Journalist Lee Gordon said he was told that the Germans had been traveling last...

The Iraqi rebels show me their latest victim: a German in a pool of blood By Lee Gordon (Filed: 11/04/2004) A young Iraqi mujahideen fighter poses in triumph by the smouldering wreck, his face obscured by a red and white kaffiyeh scarf, his high-powered sniper's rifle ready for action. It is only minutes since a white Japanese 4x4 vehicle was forced off the road and its two occupants, both German, killed in a firefight and their bodies dragged from the vehicle when it burst into flames. Now, a mile away, I have been brought to the scene of their deaths...

Two Security agents from the German Embassy in Baghdad have been missing in Iraq for several days and may be dead, German officials said Saturday.Two German men, ages 38 and 25, were travelling from Aman, Jordan to Baghdad on a routine trip Wednesday and were ambushed near Fallujah, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.'It can't be ruled out that they were killed,' the spokesman told the Associated Press.'They were ambushed, but their deaths are not yet confirmed.'Other vehicles in the convoy reached the embassy on Thursday, the spokesman said.An Iraqi newspaper printed photos of two men today it said it were...

BERLIN (AFP) - Two German government security workers have been missing in Iraq (news - web sites) for several days, the German foreign ministry told AFP. "Two civil servants working for the German mission in Baghdad have been missing for the past few days," a ministry spokeswowan said Saturday, confirming earlier television reports. "There is no evidence to suggest it is a hostage-taking."

This breaking news item was put up on "Spiegel" about 6:30 AM EDT. Two members of the crack German Anti-terrorist Unit GSG-9 are missing after an ambush on a convoy going to Baghdad from Amman, Jordan last Wednesday. There have been no indications of a kidnapping thus far. The attack occured near Fallujah. Vehicles that escaped the ambush reached the embassy later. "Spiegel-Online"....Zwei deutsche GSG-9-Mitarbeiter im Irak vermisst longjack

Last Update: Saturday, April 10, 2004. 12:00pm (AEST) Two US soldiers, several civilians missing in Iraq: Pentagon The Pentagon has confirmed that two US soldiers and several US civilians are missing following an attack by Iraqi insurgents on a fuel convoy west of Baghdad, as the fierce fighting in south and central Iraq continues. Defence officials say it is not immediately known if the missing Americans have been captured. ABC foreign editor Peter Cave was on the scene shortly after the attack on the convoy, where he saw several fuel trucks in flames. A group of masked gunmen pulled up...

Arrests Made; Missing 4-Year-Old Boy Found Deven Templeton Missing Since March 11 Diane Kockler, Staff Writer POSTED: 3:22 pm CDT April 9, 2004 UPDATED: 3:47 pm CDT April 9, 2004 OTTUMWA, Iowa -- A 4-year-old Ottumwa boy missing for almost one month was found in Kentucky, and three people have been arrested in the case. Police in Louisville, Ky., arrested Beth Lee Ann Templeton (pictured, below right), 21, and James Edward Browning, 30, on Iowa arrest warrants. Deven Cole Templeton (pictured, left), 4, has been missing since March 11, when Beth Templeton is accused of assaulting a social worker...

(CNSNews.com) - The author who alleges that three boxes of FBI files dealing with Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's anti-war group were stolen from his home last month, did not allow police officers the opportunity to process the crime scene. The police report of the incident also neglects to mention that the Kerry campaign dispatched a messenger to the home of author Gerald Nicosia to pick up copies of the FBI files a week before the alleged theft of the documents. CNSNews.com has obtained a copy of the police report related to the alleged theft of three of the 14...