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...faction in history by extracting some $100 million a year in "taxes" from drug producers and traffickers operating in the southern half of Colombia, which they control. (That must be a relief for Colombia's peasantry, of course, since it was the impoverished campesinos themselves who, along with assorted kidnap victims, had been the guerrillas' prime revenue source before the cocaine boom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why U.S. Top Brass Fears Getting Dragged Into the Colombian Drug War | 3/31/2000 | See Source »

Posh Spice [OCCUPATION:] Singer [WHAT HAPPENED:] A criminal gang plotted to kidnap Posh and son Brooklyn [SUGGESTED PUNISHMENT:] Granting Posh naming rights to gang's children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 24, 2000 | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

Jawbreaker puts a new spin on "accidental murder." Three of the most popular girls at Ronald Reagan High School "kidnap" their fourth friend, the sweet Liz Purr (Charlotte Roldan, a former Miss Teen USA), on her birthday and plan to surprise her with some innocent fun. However, their version of kidnapping includes shoving a namesake of the movie, a jawbreaker, into her mouth, covering her mouth with duct tape and tossing her into the trunk of a car. Ever so suprisingly, when they open the trunk Liz has choked to death on the sweet candy...

Author: By Annie K. Zaleski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Jawbreaker Leaves a Sour Taste | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

...mouth. His followers were a loosely bound group of former Afghan freedom fighters called al Qaeda, meaning (military) base. But bin Laden was moving into the big leagues. Al Qaeda operatives or sympathizers are accused of attacking American soldiers in Somalia, Yemen and Saudi Arabia. They had plans to kidnap U.S. military personnel in the Persian Gulf, and they might have U.S.-made Stinger missiles left over from the Afghan war. Worse, intelligence officials discovered that by 1993 bin Laden had begun hunting for nuclear weapons. First on his shopping list was a Russian nuclear warhead he hoped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside The Hunt For Osama | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...made a suitably contrasting couple as they scheme their way through the remainder of the show. Giroux demonstrates a wonderfully repulsive amount of sleaziness as well as a convincing rooster call, and Byers-Blackwell plays Lily as the domineering, long-legged, gum-chewing femme-fatal behind the plot to kidnap Annie...

Author: By Christina B. Rosenberger, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: IT'S THE HARD KNOCK LIFE | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

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