Word: ransoms
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...weapons, information and equipment from the Russians - and even get local officials to ferry him around. For their part, Russian élite units seem to have other priorities besides finding Basayev. Human-rights groups allege that this year alone, hundreds of Chechen civilians have been kidnapped and held for ransom, mostly by Russian troops or their Chechen auxiliaries. Many have never been seen again...
...Armenian Catholics in Baghdad. His captors showed him a list of 200 names, most of them Christian, and demanded to know where they lived. When he refused, he was hung from the ceiling and beaten with iron pipes. He was released only when his family paid a $50,000 ransom on Sept. 13. He left the next day for Jordan. Says Mardirosian: "If they opened the doors to America or Australia, I can say there would not be one Christian left in Iraq...
...Internet equipment like routers to direct traffic around the network, and it can cost one-tenth as much as other networking gear. "We noticed Ethernet kept getting cheaper and cheaper and cheaper, so we said we'd better take advantage of that," says Alcatel chief technology officer Niel Ransom. Indeed, Alcatel's innovation is part of an ever-widening appreciation of what Ethernet technology can accomplish. "Ethernet continues to expand - in distance, bandwidth capacity and the ability to run voice and video - in ways people never anticipated five years ago," says John Chambers, Ceo of router maker Cisco Systems. DSLAMs...
Thieves sometimes try using artworks as collateral for other underworld deals. The masterminds of the 1986 robbery of Russborough House near Dublin, who snatched 18 canvases, tried in vain to trade them for Irish Republican Army members held in British jails. Others demand a ransom from the museum that owns the pictures. Ten years ago, thieves in Frankfurt, Germany, made off with two major canvases by J.M.W. Turner that were on loan from the Tate Gallery in London. The paintings, worth more than $80 million, were recovered in 2002 after the Tate paid more than $5 million to people having...
...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 12 hostages from Nepal abducted in August, accusing the country's leadership of assisting U.S. forces in Iraq...