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Two veteran French journalists have gone missing in Iraq as concern mounts over the fate of an Italian reporter. George Malbrunot of Le Figaro newspaper and Christian Chesnot of French radio have not been heard of since Thursday, the French foreign ministry said. The two men have often worked together and published a book on Iraq last year. -snip- The French foreign ministry said on Saturday that its embassy in Baghdad had been "completely mobilised" but no trace of the two French reporters had been found since Thursday evening. A joint statement by Le Figaro and Radio France Internationale said...

Each day since September 15th, the NY Times has run a photo and brief blurb about some of the people missing from the World Trade Center. They say they will continue to do so, as long as they have photos and stories to tell. They’ll be running this feature for a long time. All the tributes can be found at: http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/index_GRIEF.html Here are today’s: JAY MAGAZINE Food as the Music of Love   For all of Jay Magazine's achievements as a chef and then as catering sales manager of Windows on the World, his happiest moments were spent with his ...

John O'Neill hasn't shown up for his scheduled appearance on Savge Nation.

NEW YORK The fiancee of a journalist snatched off the street in Iraq says he wanted to understand the country's culture and history. Marie Helene Carleton says her fiancee - Micah Garen - was working on a story about the looting of archaeological sites in Iraq when he was abducted. Carleton is also Garen's colleague and co-founder of New York-based Four Corners Media. Iraqi police say 36-year-old Garen and his Iraqi translator, Amir Doushi, were kidnapped Friday by two armed men in a busy market in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah. According to its Web site, Four Corners is...

Sorry folks, he's a 3 year old baby said to be in extreme danger. I call it front page and breaking Levi's Call in Georgia .......... (moderator--move if needed)

Massachusetts State Police have issued an Amber Alert for the greater Boston area for a missing newborn who is only 19 days old. Police are looking for a man in connection with the infant's disappearance. They have identified him as Josh Lizama, 28, described as having black hair, about 5 feet, 5 inches, wearing black and beige pants. Police said he may be armed. Another male may be driving the car. Authorities are looking for a freshly-painted 1998 White Ford Crown Victoria with a license plate of 5192VR. They said there was also information that cars may have been switched...

LONDON (Reuters) - Market rumors that a commercial aircraft flying from London to either Washington or New York had gone missing are untrue, British and U.S. air traffic controllers said on Wednesday. "There are no reports of any aircraft in difficulties. As far as we know, everything is normal," a spokesman for Britain's National Air Traffic Services told Reuters. "We've checked with everyone, including our Canadian and European counterparts, and no one has heard anything," said the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration's Glenn Godfrey, operations manager at the FAA's air traffic command center near Washington D.C. The rumor swept through equity...

driver who set off a nine-state terror alert when he disappeared with his loaded gasoline tanker may have ditched it after getting involved with a hooker, colleagues and officials told The Post yesterday. "Let's just say he used our vehicle in an unauthorized manner," said Jim Cameron, safety director for the Maspeth, Queens-based Island Transportation Corp. ~snip~ "He just abandoned the truck and never came back," said Cameron. "We haven't seen him. He'll be getting a formal notice that he's been terminated." ~snip~ "They say the guy got hooked up with a hooker and he was too embarrassed to come...

SALT LAKE CITY (Aug. 1) - Authorities investigating the case of a missing woman were surprised by her relatives' announcement that new information from her husband had prompted them to tell volunteers to stop searching for her. The statement released late Saturday by the families of Mark and Lori Hacking did not say what Mark Hacking had told them. Police were planning a news conference Sunday. Investigators said they had not heard from the Hackings' relatives and were trying to reach them. "If they've got information that's breaking, that's something we need to hear about." Detective Phil Eslinger told The...

Deceits Follow Husband in Hacking Case Fri Jul 30, 7:34 PM ET By PAUL FOY, Associated Press Writer SALT LAKE CITY - By all accounts, Mark Hacking was fun to be around and loving to his wife. He wanted to be liked and respected and, like his father, to become a doctor. AP Photo   But years of deceptions are catching up to Hacking, a 28-year-old former nightshift hospital orderly who has become the focus of police in the disappearance of his wife, who vanished as they were packing to move to a medical school where, it turns out, he...

SALT LAKE CITY — The focus on Mark Hacking's possible role in the disappearance of his wife tightened Monday with reports that police found a bloody knife in the couple's apartment and Lori Hacking got an upsetting phone call at work three days before she vanished.

Yup, Savage was right: he predicted last week that the media would go overboard covering a missing woman, and sure enough .. sadly, but sure enough .. here comes a missing woman in Utah and a suspicious husband. They are purposely avoiding discussing the acts of possible treason and theft of classified documents by the Bergler ..even Geraldo .. it's disgusting. ""When I was informed by the Archives that there were documents missing, I immediately returned everything I had except for a few documents that I apparently had accidentally discarded." Sandy Berger A very telling Washington Times editorial, posted on...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- The search for 27-year-old Lori Hacking has made an unlikely connection between Salt Lake City and Chapel Hill.Lori Hacking reportedly left her Salt Lake home around daybreak Monday to go jogging and has not been seen since. Mark Hacking, Lori's husband, told family, investigators and the media that he and his wife had planned to move to Chapel Hill to attend medical school, but on Wednesday, WRAL learned that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has no record of Mark Hacking and that he is not registered to be a student at the medical...

Pregnant Woman Disappears While Jogging Tuesday, July 20, 2004 SALT LAKE CITY — In a case reminiscent of the disappearance of Laci Peterson, a 27-year-old pregnant woman vanished during her daily morning jog, and distraught family and friends turned out Tuesday to search for her. Lori Kay Hacking, who is five weeks pregnant, went out about 5:30 a.m. Monday, heading from her Salt Lake City home to nearby City Creek Canyon and Memory Grove park for a run.

Police investigate missing bags of ammonium nitrate Winston-Salem police are investigating the disappearance of 100 bags of ammonium nitrate from a local fertilizer plant. The chemical compound is commonly used as fertilizer but can also be used in explosives. According to police, Royster-Clark, one of the nation's largest retailers of fertilizer products, filed a report of a break-in and larceny that occurred between July 1 and Tuesday at the company's plant at 3105 N. Glenn Ave. An inventory check revealed that 100 50-pound bags of the compound were missing, Lt. Brad Yandell said. Police found 35 of the bags at...

LOS ALAMOS Two items containing classified information are missing from Los Alamos National Laboratory, a lab spokesman said Friday. The items -- so-called "Classified Removable Electronic Media" — were discovered missing from the Weapons Physics Directorate during an inventory check Wednesday, lab spokesman Kevin Roark said. While Roark refused to say if the items contained information that could jeopardize national security if in the wrong hands, he said the CREM items could include products like compact flash disks, CDs and floppy disks. A search was under way Friday, and lab Director Peter Nanos said he would order a full inquiry...

Missing explosives found in Union City California. Some or All ...Details to come.

An Australian filmmaker is missing in Afghanistan and it is feared that she may have been kidnapped by Taliban fighters, or bandits, after her four-wheel-drive was found abandoned on Tuesday. On Monday, Carmela Baranowska, 35, left Kandahar for Zabul province, 100 kilometres north. Neither she, nor her Afghan fixer, Mohibullah, have been heard from since. Four-wheel-drive found abandoned ... filmmaker Carmela Baranowska. Tim McGirk, the regional correspondent for Time, said he was extremely concerned for both Ms Baranowska, and Mohibullah - an experienced and reliable fixer who worked for the magazine. Mr McGirk said from Kabul there had been a...

Hornet, Marine Pilot MissingStory Number: NNS040627-01Release Date: 6/27/2004 8:08:00 PMFrom USS Harry S. Truman Public Affairs ABOARD USS HARRY S. TRUMAN (NNS) -- A U.S. Marine Corps pilot and F/A-18 Hornet aircraft operating from USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) were reported missing June 27. The missing pilot has been identified as Capt. Franklin R. Hooks, II, 32, of Pasco, Fla. Aircraft wreckage has been recovered approximately 60 miles south of the Azores in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. Harry S. Truman and its embarked aircraft have covered more than 200 square miles of water in search of the pilot....

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A U.S. Marine has been missing from his unit in Iraq for nearly a week but it is unclear whether the man has been taken hostage, the U.S. command said Monday. The announcement was made after Al-Jazeera television broadcast a videotape purportedly of a Marine taken hostage by a militant group which threatened to kill him if the U.S. military did not release all prisoners in Iraq. The tape showed a blindfolded, mustached man wearing a blindfold and displayed a Marine identification card in the name of Wassef Ali Hassoun. Al-Jazeera said he was of Pakistani...