Word: abduction
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...remembers the reason why. Sitting on the floor of her dimly lit stone hut as chickens and small children wander outside the door, Akuma describes the day when rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) came to her home to murder two of her sons and abduct her daughter to be a sex slave. Since then, the years have been a blur to the 60-year-old widow. And many who have suffered like her through the 20-year civil war just want to go home. Even if the cost is justice...
Patchett takes us to an unnamed South American country, where terrorists intend to abduct the president from a birthday party in honor of a prominent Japanese businessman. However, when they discover that the president is not in attendance, the terrorists instead hold the entire party hostage...
...became clear last weekend when a gunfight erupted in Lebanon's central Bekaa Valley only days after Resolution 1701 was adopted. Israel said that a commando operation was aimed at preventing a fresh shipment of arms from reaching Hizballah guerrillas. Hizballah officials believe that the commandos sought to abduct or kill Sheikh Mohammed Yazbek, a prominent Shi'ite cleric and Hizballah official with close ties to Iran...
Late-night TV almost had its own Lindbergh baby. Authorities arrested a Montana man last week for allegedly plotting to abduct DAVID LETTERMAN'S 16-month-old son HARRY and Harry's nanny for $5 million ransom. KELLY FRANK, right, who worked as a painter on the Late Show host's isolated Rocky Mountain ranch, allegedly told an acquaintance that he had a key to Letterman's house and knew where the baby slept. That acquaintance alerted police, who charged Frank with felony solicitation. Letterman and his girlfriend Regina Lasko issued a statement calling themselves "forever grateful...
Perhaps Hollywood can't be trusted to make Hollywood-style movies anymore. When ancient-history films lumber like the elephantine Alexander, or when technological gewgaws abduct the magic of fantasy in films like The Polar Express, where can a curious cinephile go? China. That's where director Zhang Yimou blended history book with graphic novel in the worldwide hit Hero, and whence he returns with the even zippier, more cunning kung fu caper, House of Flying Daggers...