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...dates." SILJA STAEHELI, 19-year-old Swiss woman held hostage for six months by an Islamic radical group in the Sahara desert, explaining how she and 13 others survived...
...million Ransom Libya reportedly paid to secure the release of 14 Europeans held hostage in the Sahara desert...
...could be prosecuted as a result. With President Nestor Kirchner in favor of sweeping away the protection, only the Supreme Court could stand in the way of future convictions. Safe and Sand MALI Fourteen hostages were freed after being held for up to six months in the Sahara desert by Muslim extremists. The nine Germans, four Swiss, and one Dutch national were captured in southern Algeria by the radical Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, which is allegedly linked to al-Qaeda. The German government denied claims that it had fronted a ransom of almost €5 million to secure...
...entering the U.S. More than 3.5 million made it last year, compared with about 2.5 million a year for most of the '90s, according to Massey's estimates. The larger numbers mean that when things go wrong, more migrants are left to die on Texas highways and in Arizona deserts. Gonzalo, 19, a Guatemalan, barely escaped that destiny. "Last year I paid a coyote organization $2,000, and that's what finally got me into Arizona," he says as he sits in a detention pen near Minatitlan, facing deportation back to his country. "But then they just left...
...antinarcotics experts tell TIME. Several Kabul diplomats familiar with U.S. military operations say that while carrying out searches in eastern and southern Afghanistan--opium-growing areas that are also Taliban strongholds--U.S. soldiers have found hidden caches of narcotics, crude heroin-processing labs and convoys racing across the desert with bundles of hashish and opium, headed for Europe and Central Asia. "If these drug convoys have any connection with terrorists, special forces will move in," says a Western diplomat. "Otherwise the attitude is, 'Hey, it's not our problem.'" Officially the U.S. military in Afghanistan claims it has "no record...