Word: kidnapped
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...them? Jessica spends her nights tending to infantile businessmen at a posh, Osaka club. Chris, a nobody back home, finds himself treated in Japan "like he was Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt"?after two months he has already bedded a dozen girls. So when Jessica hatches a scheme to kidnap a besotted executive who reneged on his promise to pay her a million dollars for sex, Chris jumps aboard. In a country full of gullible suits and sluts, what could be easier than extorting money from a sorry lecher...
...Trouble in Bihar In the article "State of Fear" [June 30], you described the dire situation in the Indian state of Bihar. Thank you for shedding light on poverty and crime. The sordid fact that kidnapping for ransom is Bihar's biggest industry is a blemish on India. You reported that "even politicians may be cashing in." Although some local politicians may run kidnap syndicates, as one assembly member charged, the sorry state of affairs in Bihar is not solely the work of a few politicians; it is the result of the apathy of the Bihari people. They must rise...
...hard part of the war on terror. As soon as a suspect is in custody, the tables are meant to turn as interrogators get tough on the terrorist. However, in the Philippines last week, as self-confessed Indonesian bombmaker Fathur Rohman al-Ghozi and two Abu Sayyaf kidnap-gang members strolled out of a supposedly high-security prison cell on July 14, we were reminded yet again that this war is only as effective as the most hapless institution drafted into the fight...
...Faisal Marohombsar, June 2002, Pentagon kidnap-gang chief climbs over a back fence with two of his henchmen and hails a taxi to the airport...
...down at home? So far, the travails in Iraq do not seem to have dimmed Americans' sense that their troops are doing a good job there or diminished Bush's popularity. But what would happen if the trickle of deaths turned into a flood? "It is natural to kidnap American soldiers because they have occupied us," says Tihan Alwan, a village elder standing outside the mosque at Halabsa, a town close to the place from which the two American soldiers were abducted last week. "Not only kidnap," adds his friend Wadah al-Hamdani. "We're going to kill them like...