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The search for $180,000 in missing nickels ended in the back yard of a Miami-Dade County house today. A joint task force including the DEA, FBI (news - web sites), Immigration and Customs Enforcement and detectives from the Miami-Dade County Police Department, found the nickels buried in the back yard of a home in an area near Miami known as the Redlands. Law enforcement officials searched the home this morning and found nothing. They searched a smaller house behind the main residence and reportedly found 88 plants believed to be marijuana. When agents went over the back yard with metal...

KABUL (AFP) The wreckage of an Afghan airliner that went missing with 104 people on board has been found east of Kabul, a western security source told AFP. The Kam Air Boeing 737 travelling from Herat to Kabul vanished from radar screens on Thursday afternoon after requesting permission to divert because of heavy snow storms, officials said. "The plane was found 35 kilometres (22 miles) east of Kabul. We don't know if there are any survivors," the source told AFP on condition of anonymity. However another source close to the search operation gave a different distance, saying the crash site...

KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan passenger jet with more than 100 people on board was missing after it failed to land at the Kabul airport, a company official said Friday. The Kam Air (search) Boeing 737 took off Thursday afternoon from the western city of Herat bound for the capital, Kabul, but was unable to land because of bad weather, said Feda Mohammed Fedayi, the airline's deputy director

Hey, I stopped to compose a response and lost the original thread. Was it Zotted? If someone will provide the thread link, I will post this correctly to it.

^URGENT< ^U.S. military: No soldier missing in Iraq< ^Eds: LEADS throughout to RECAST with doubts over photo's authenticity; UPDATES with details of similarities between image and action figure, quotes from official from Dragon toys. Mispellings and repetitions in the Arabic text. ADD photo< ^AP Photo NY118< BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) _ A Web site posted a photograph of what it claimed was a kidnapped U.S. soldier, but doubts were quickly raised about its authenticity and the U.S. military said no soldiers were missing. A toy manufacturer said the figure in the photo resembled one of its military action figures, originally produced...

Per Greta on Fox News...

Civil War Turns Nepal Into Land of 'Disappeared' Thu Jan 27, 9:12 AM ET By Simon Denyer KATHMANDU, Nepal (Reuters) - Rajmati's husband set off to buy vegetables from the market more than a year ago. Three hours later, an anonymous caller phoned to say Arjun had been arrested by security forces and bundled into a car. Reuters Photo She has not seen him since. "My children are asking where is our papa," she said, giving way to tears at a public forum last month. Nepal is best known as home to the world's highest mountain, but the Himalayan kingdom...

Mexico says U.S. Threat Exaggerted This week the US State department issued a travel warning for Americans for the area in Mexico across from Loredo, Texas. 27 Americans have disappeared, been kidnapped or killed since September, 2004 in that area. “Mexico is taking determined action against drug-trafficking. Mexico’s government cannot permit ANY FORIEGN GOVERNMENT TO JUDGE OR EXPRESS ITSELF REGARDING POLICY ACTIONS UNDRTAKEN TO DEAL WITH IT’S PROBLEMS” Mexican President’s Office Jan. 27, 2005 Oh, really, Mr. Fox? And yet your government is threatening to take the US and Arizona to the International court for it’s people’s passage of propostion...

NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico -- Brenda Cisneros, 23, kissed her father goodbye after dinner in Laredo, Tex., just after 11 p.m. on Sept. 17. It was her birthday, and she was headed with a friend, Yvette Martinez, for a late-night concert across the border. The two drove across the international bridge into this sprawling town, famous for dancing and drinking spots. They never returned home. Jerry Contreras, 17, left San Antonio one day last May and drove across the border into Piedras Negras to attend a baby shower. There, witnesses said, he became involved in a minor accident with a gold...

Archaeologists excited over old toilets Posted Thu, 20 Jan 2005 Excited archaeologists are sifting through the contents of 150-year-old New Zealand toilets to get a better understanding of the everyday lives of early settlers. Although there is plenty of oral and written history, there are gaps which can only be answered by lifting the lid on the sanitary habits of pioneering families, they say. About 30 of New Zealand's leading archaeologists arrived in Wellington on Thursday to start a five-week project to collect and document information from historic sites along an inner-city bypass route. The old toilets, locally referred to...

Suspect's Car Found in Missing Boy Case January 21, 2005 2:48 PM EST ATLANTA - Authorities searching for a missing 11-year-old Florida boy said an abandoned car was found in Georgia on Friday belonging to a convicted child molester suspected of taking him. Investigators suspect that Frederick Fretz, 42, picked up 11-year-old Adam Kirkirt on Tuesday at his school in Dunnellon, Fla., and left the state with him. An Amber Alert was issued Wednesday. Officials said Fretz had been living with Adam and his father, Ivan Kirkirt, and that Fretz frequently took the boy to and from school. Fretz's car...

The boy about 2 years, from Khoa Lak is missing his parents. Nobody knows what country he comes from.The girl IS AT THE PHUKET HOSPITAL. SHE DOES NOT REMEMBER ANYTHING.

Alleged US deserter Hassoun may be in Lebanon US Marine Corporal Wassef Ali Hassoun, charged with desertion in a mysterious case in which he left his unit in Iraq and turned up in Lebanon, has again gone absent and appears to have returned to Lebanon.The US military has tracked records from bank machines indicating that Hassoun made his way to Canada and then back to Lebanon, the country of his birth, said a US official, speaking on condition of anonymity.The Marine Corps formally declared him a deserter on Wednesday.Major Matt Morgan, a Marine Corps spokesman at Camp Lejeune, said Hassoun...

LA CONCHITA, Calif. - A huge mudslide crashed down on homes in a coastal hamlet with terrifying force Monday, killing at least one person and leaving up to 12 missing as a Pacific storm hammered Southern California for a fourth straight day. Ventura County Fire Department Chief Bob Roper said at least six and as many as a dozen residents were missing in the mudslide that pummeled a four-block area of homes in tiny La Conchita, about 70 miles northwest of Los Angeles. Nine people were injured, including a 60-year-old man who was buried for three hours. "It lasted a...

VANSTON, Ill., Jan. 7 - David Abels called home on Thursday, a day after arriving in Thailand, with an urgent question that had somehow been overlooked in his family's 12-day search since the tsunami. Had his brother Ben ever been fingerprinted? Family members here in the home office that they call central command switched tracks in what has been a constant cycle of grief and action. A cousin decided to check whether Colorado, where Ben Abels used to live, requires fingerprints for driver's licenses. His parents, who recalled something about fingerprints before he took a trip to South America, discussed...

A civilian truck driver missing in Iraq since an ambush in April has been found dead near the scene. William Bradley, 50, lived in Chesterfield, N.H., before going to Iraq nearly a year ago to drive trucks for Texas-based Halliburton Co., which announced the discovery of his remains. He was in a fuel truck convoy that was ambushed near Baghdad on April 9. Army Spc. Keith M. Maupin of Batavia, Ohio, and Mobile, Ala., resident Timothy Bell, also a truck driver for Halliburton, also have been missing since the ambush. Chesterfield resident Wilma Procter was Bradley's g

A reporter for the French newspaper Liberation has gone missing in Iraq along with her Iraqi assistant. "We have had no news from Florence Aubenas in over 24 hours", the Paris-based daily said. It said that Ms Aubenas and her assistant, Hussein Hanoun Al-Saadi, were last seen leaving their Baghdad hotel early on Wednesday. Two French journalists were released last month after being held hostage by Iraqi militants for four months. Very worried The French foreign ministry has confirmed Ms Aubenas and her assistant are missing. "Every effort is being made by our representatives in Baghdad and by the ministry...

London 31.12.04 | This man was last seen on October 31 2004. His family has no knowledge of his whereabouts and the hypothesis of him having been kidnapped, tortured and beaten to death by Venezuela's Military Intelligence is yet to be proved wrong. Minister Jessy Chacon, Minister Andres Izarra, Minister Jorge Garcia Carneiro, President Hugo Chavez, Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel: what investigations are you conducting to find out what happened to this man?

At a press conference in Phuket this morning with the Swedish ambassador to Thailand, new figures from the Swedish foreign office were released. According to these figures, 3500 Swedes are still missing in Thailand.

Website to track tsunami deadFrom correspondents in Phuket, ThailandJanuary 1, 2005THAILAND has set up a website, wwWcsiphuket.com, for those searching for relatives and friends killed or injured in the tsunami that swamped tourist-packed beaches along its southwest coast. Set up today in a police squad room by volunteers, including programmers and website developers, it aims to put all data available on the dead and missing in one place instead of forcing people to surf over 80 sites set up to track the tragedy. In a round-the-clock operation, volunteers in the island resort of Phuket enter data from forms filled...