A collection of stories tagged 'kidnapping' from NPR. http://www.reverbiage.com/ Copyright 2006 Reverbiage.com. Reverbiage is not affiliated with NPR nor its member stations. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:49:34 EST Actor Jeremy Sisto, best known for his role as Billy on HBO's Six Feet Under, is now starring in the new series Kidnapped on NBC. It premieres next Wednesday. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/23620 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6068015 Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:00:00 EDT Kidnapping for ransom has quickly become a multi-million-dollar business for armed gangs roaming the slums of Haiti's capital city, Port-au-Prince. After being released, many kidnapping victims leave the country -- but one former victim, a local disc jockey, has decided to stay. Using his on-air personality the "Haitian Hillbilly," he uses his music -- and his kidnapping experience -- to reach out to fellow Haitians. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/2337 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5191832 Mon, 06 Feb 2006 00:00:00 EST The bodies of 16 men are discovered in Baghdad Thursday, while an average of 50 bodies riddled with bullets show up at Baghdad's main morgue every day. Staggering statistics mark the Iraq conflict: the growing numbers of kidnappings, murders and bombings that mark day-to-day life in the country. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/190 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5186054 Thu, 02 Feb 2006 00:00:00 EST Al Jazeera airs a video, dated Jan. 21, of four Western peace activists who were kidnapped in Iraq in November. With the tape comes a threat to kill the four if all Iraqi prisoners are not freed. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/302 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5176474 Sat, 28 Jan 2006 00:00:00 EST The U.S. military has freed five female Iraqi prisoners, saying there is no connection to their release and negotiations to free kidnapped journalist Jill Carroll, who demanded the women be removed from custody. Madeleine Brand talks with Washington Post reporter Jonathan Finer about how the prisoners' release might affect Carroll's fate. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/340 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5173238 Thu, 26 Jan 2006 00:00:00 EST While reporting on the torture scandal at the U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, Jackie Spinner was nearly kidnapped. Shaken by the experience, the Washington Post journalist returned to work, spending a total of nine months in Iraq. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/1653 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5170524 Wed, 25 Jan 2006 00:00:00 EST A day after a deadline set by her captors -- amid persistent cries for her release -- there is no word on the fate of American journalist Jill Carroll. She was captured in Iraq two weeks ago. Many Lourdes Garcia-Navarro reports. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/457 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5166944 Sat, 21 Jan 2006 00:00:00 EST The captors of American journalist Jill Carroll, who was kidnapped in Iraq almost two weeks ago, say they will kill her Friday unless all Iraqi women prisoners are freed. Simultaneous suicide and roadside bombings on the same Baghdad street Thursday have killed at least 22 Iraqis. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/518 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5163009 Thu, 19 Jan 2006 00:00:00 EST The captors of Jill Carroll have released video of the freelance American journalist, who was kidnapped in Iraq on Jan. 7. In a new incident, armed gunmen Wednesday grabbed an engineer from the east African nation of Malawi. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/550 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5161503 Wed, 18 Jan 2006 00:00:00 EST Protesters filled the streets in Haiti Thursday to denounce violence and kidnappings ahead of national elections scheduled for next month. The vote has already been delayed four times. Steve Inskeep talks with Haiti's U.N. Mission Chief Juan Gabriel Valdes. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/647 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5155894 Fri, 13 Jan 2006 00:00:00 EST Ravaged by years of poverty, corruption and violence, Haiti is seeing a new scourge: kidnappings. Officials estimate 6 to 12 kidnappings, of a range of victims, occur daily. Afraid to go to Haiti's corrupt and ineffectual police, most people negotiate with kidnappers on their own. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/701 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5148094 Tue, 10 Jan 2006 00:00:00 EST Jill Carroll, a freelance American reporter, was kidnapped Saturday morning when gunmen ambushed her car and killed her translator in western Baghdad. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/720 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5147000 Tue, 10 Jan 2006 00:00:00 EST On Christmas Eve, 1945, the Sodder family of Fayetteville, W.V., lost five children in a fire. Strange events that night and afterward fueled speculation, which continues to this day, that the children may have been kidnapped or murdered. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/950 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5067563 Fri, 23 Dec 2005 00:00:00 EST Katherine Bright, manager of Amazon World Zoo Park on the Isle of Wight, discusses the case of Toga, the zoo's baby South African Jackass Penguin. Toga was taken from the zoo Sunday morning and is still unaccounted for. The zoo has offered a 1,000-pound reward for the bird. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/2987 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5065080 Wed, 21 Dec 2005 00:00:00 EST In Pakistan, authorities are looking for a missing reporter. Hayatullah Khan was kidnapped on Monday by militants after reporting the death of a top al Qaeda commander. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/10572 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5045386 Fri, 09 Dec 2005 00:00:00 EST A U.S. civil liberties group files a lawsuit against the CIA in the case of a man who says he was kidnapped and sent to Afghanistan to be interrogated as a terrorism suspect. The ACLU suit is the first legal challenge of a practice known as "extraordinary rendition." http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/6548 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5041382 Tue, 06 Dec 2005 00:00:00 EST Three other Americans are being held hostage in Iraq. One of them is Aban Elias, an Iraqi-American civil engineer from Denver, Colo. He was kidnapped in May 2004 while working as an engineer on a road building project in Baghdad. Steve Inskeep talks to Elias' friend, Mazen Kherdeen. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/11557 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5033864 Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:00 EST Last week in Oakland, Calif., two liquor stores owned by Arab Muslim immigrants were vandalized. In one incident, men in suits and bow ties confronted the owner and smashed bottles and refrigerators. In the second incident, a store was burned down and an employee kidnapped. According to Oakland police, in both incidents the suspects entered the store and questioned why a Muslim-owned store would sell alcoholic beverages when alcohol is forbidden in Islam. Commentator Murad Kalam, an African-American convert to Islam, says immigrant Arab Muslims and black Muslims have misconceptions about each other -- misconceptions made evident by the incidents in Oakland. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/7189 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5033311 Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:00:00 EST Harvard University psychologist Susan Clancy is the author of the new book Abducted: How People Come to Believe They Were Kidnapped by Aliens. She speaks with host Madeleine Brand her years of research and conversations with people who believe themselves victims of alien abduction. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/1882 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5005775 Wed, 09 Nov 2005 00:00:00 EST Gunmen in Baghdad open fire on a car carrying two lawyers representing Saddam Hussein's co-defendants, killing one and wounding the other. This is the second attack on the defense team: Last month another lawyer was kidnapped from his office and found dead hours later. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/13877 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4994153 Tue, 08 Nov 2005 00:00:00 EST Baghdad used to be a bustling metropolis, but it has turned into a patchwork quilt of heavily fortified compounds, modern-day forts that protect their residents from violence and kidnapping. So the only solution for those who can no longer stand being locked up is to go fort hopping. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/7209 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4839675 Fri, 09 Sep 2005 00:00:00 EDT 'Secuestro Express' August 6, 2005 · A kidnapping in Caracas provides the plotline for the Venezuelan thriller Secuestro Express. The film makes reference to the kidnap-for-ransom trade thriving in many parts of Latin America. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/5428 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4788830 Sat, 06 Aug 2005 00:00:00 EDT A Brazilian-led U.N. peacekeeping force works to maintain some sense of order in Haiti, plagued by gang-style violence, a rash of kidnappings and yet another hurricane. Brazil's president says his troops need help, and the United Nation's Kofi Annan agrees. Farai Chideya speaks with journalist Michael Deibert, who's just returned from Haiti, about the strife, and about efforts to conduct elections. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/16150 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4760435 Tue, 19 Jul 2005 00:00:00 EDT The Italian government comments for the first time about the decision of a Milan judge to issue arrest warrants for 13 CIA agents. They are accused of kidnapping an Egyptian Muslim preacher in an extra-judicial "rendition." The man was apparently taken to Egypt for interrogation, during which he says he was tortured. There has been no comment from the American or Egyptian governments. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/16340 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4725099 Thu, 30 Jun 2005 00:00:00 EDT Michele Norris talks with Diana Fuentes, editor of the Laredo Morning Times, about the recovery Sunday night of more than 40 kidnap victims by Mexican state and federal authorities in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/16347 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4721977 Tue, 28 Jun 2005 00:00:00 EDT