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...their way to Najaf to cover clashes between al-Sadr's Mahdi army and Iraqi government and American forces when they were captured on Aug. 20. Over the past five months, more than 100 hostages from nearly 20 countries have been seized in Iraq. In some cases they were freed. Seven truck drivers abducted in July were released by their captors last week after a ransom of $500,000 was paid by their employer, the Kuwait and Gulf Link Transport Company. But a group calling itself the Army of Ansar al-Sunna announced last week that it had executed...
...They said they cannot stand to see these things and decided to set me free." MUHAMMAD MAMDOUH QUTB, Egyptian diplomat who was kidnapped and subsequently freed by Iraqi insurgents, suggesting that his kidnappers let him go because they felt guilty seeing his worried students (he also teaches in a mosque...
MILESTONES: A dissident freed, a former President charged, a choreographer and a composer...
Those chances seemed good enough for Gfoeller. Iraq had a new boxing coach, and six months later the country had its Athens-bound fighter--Najah Ali, 24, a flyweight with a computer-science degree from Alrafdean University in Baghdad. Freed from the torturous reign of Iraq's former Olympic CEO, Uday Hussein, and spurred by a trickle of private investment in sports, several other Iraqis will join Ali as unlikely Olympians this summer. For the first time since 1988, Iraq's soccer team has qualified for the Olympics. Iraqi women's sports--destroyed under Uday's rule because athletes feared...
KIDNAPPING IN IRAQ: It has become a business--and there's a method to getting hostages freed...