Word: kidnaping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tough case. But the mystery surrounding the 1996 murder of 6-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey simply will not succumb to easy explanations. Within a day of the reclusive, expatriate teacher's admission in Bangkok - that he "accidentally" killed the girl a decade ago, when his plot to kidnap her went awry - questions about his claims have only multiplied...
...take iPods on a plane in case you detonate a bomb," says Beena Faridi, of Britain's Islamic Human Rights Commission. "But at the same time they're letting America fly bombs to and from Prestwick Airport [in Scotland] so that the Israelis can collectively punish Lebanon for the kidnap of these two soldiers. It seems that the government has a double standard in its value of life, and that's just going to fuel the isolation of the Muslim community." Says Faridi: "Everything is building up." Britain hasn't yet figured out how to calm it down...
...Israel the latest hostage taking also represented an opportunity. For almost six years since Israel had quit southern Lebanon, the Israelis watched Hizballah build fortifications along the border and stockpile rockets and missiles. Of late, Hizballah's charismatic leader, Hasan Nasrallah, had explicitly threatened to kidnap Israeli soldiers, and Jerusalem believes it thwarted at least two attempts by his fighters to do just that. Army brass had urged the political leadership to respond with precisely the kind of campaign Olmert has initiated, and Israeli forces practiced just such an operation in a tabletop exercise as recently as two months...
...belief that Muslims aren't truly Indian. "LeT, SIMI?it doesn't matter who was behind these attacks. They are all children of Musharraf," sneers Shah, referring to Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf, as he stands outside the morgue where he has just identified his friend's body. "Palestinians kidnap an Israeli soldier and Gaza gets bombed. Here we have hundreds dead. I am praying for a Prime Minister with backbone. What will India...
Mashaal, who lives in Damascus under Syrian protection, is suspected by the Israelis of having ordered militants to kidnap Corporal Gilad Shalit and take him to the Gaza Strip, although Hamas and other Arab officials insist Mashaal was not directly involved. The Israelis believe he ordered the high-stakes hostage taking to scupper attempts by the Hamas-led government to join in unity talks with moderate Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas that would implicitly recognize Israel's right to exist...