Word: kidnapped
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...Israelis will expel them all from their homes. So it was on Friday, when Israeli authorities deported to Lebanon more than 400 alleged activists from the Muslim fundamentalist movements Hamas and Islamic Jihad. The expulsions were in retaliation for the shooting of four Israeli soldiers and the Hamas' kidnap-murder of a border policeman. In the Gaza Strip, at weekend demonstrations to protest the expulsions, six Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli troops...
...investigation ended with Wachtler, 62, under arrest for blackmail and attempted extortion. He is accused of bombarding his ex-mistress Joy Silverman, 45, a wealthy Republican fund raiser, with a lengthy series of anonymous letters and phone calls that included a demand for $20,000 and a threat to kidnap her 14-year-old daughter. Wachtler, who has now resigned his judgeship, remains confined by court order to the Long Island condo he shares with his wife of 40 years, Joan...
...taken hold." Even the popular Barcelona Games, which have spurred an architectural renaissance in that aging port, have been besieged by Catalan nationalists insisting that their flag be flown and their anthem played. Last week police arrested seven armed members of the Catalan independence movement for plotting to kidnap an Olympic athlete or official. A newspaper headline groused, THE OLYMPICS WILL COST EACH TAXPAYER MORE THAN 32,000 PESETAS...
Suggestion is a potent disrupter of truth, as Jean Piaget once noted. The renowned child psychologist wrote that for years he recounted the memory of how his nurse foiled an attempt to kidnap him from his carriage when he was two years old. But years later, the retired nurse sent his parents a letter saying she had made up the incident to impress her employers. The young Piaget had heard the story so often that he had created his own memory of the event...
...think you would be interested in his plan to kidnap people...