Word: kidnapped
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...mission for anarchists as political organizers—a paradox, since those who oppose governments must frequently turn to them to accomplish political objectives. Violence turned into “direct action”: if you don’t have food, steal the food, rather than kidnap the government official responsible for food supply...
...prisoners with the Northern Alliance in Mazar-i-Sharif and Kunduz alone. "The Taliban would not ask to take our sons, they would catch them on the road," said Gaffar. As we sat in the sun listening to these men, I doubted a homegrown commander like Rais needed to kidnap his troops...
...wasn’t working with the Ebola virus in his lab,” said Gregory L. Verdine, a professor of chemistry. “You could think of 100 other people whom it would make more sense [for bioterrorists] to kidnap...
...Afghan tribes are constantly feuding with each other, and women are fair game for rape or kidnap. When the Taliban say that a woman shouldn't go on the streets unescorted, they claim it's for the women's own protection. The Taliban cover women because they're afraid of their own desires. These are boys who were shoved off to the madrassas at an early age because there at least they would get a meal and some education. What they missed was any contact with women. They grew estranged from even their mothers and sisters, and they feel more...
DIED. ZHANG XUELIANG, 100, Chinese warlord; in Honolulu. In December 1936, in an event now known as the Xian Incident, he sent his troops to kidnap Chiang Kai-shek, releasing him two weeks later when Chiang promised to work with the communists to battle Japan. The promise resulted in a decade of cooperation that positioned the communists to conquer the entire Chinese mainland in 1949. Zhang spent the next 55 years under house arrest, mostly in Taiwan, but his reputation as a patriot grew. As democracy arrived in Taiwan in the early 1990s, he was given increasing freedom and began...