Word: ransoms
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...forces that appear far more powerful than she. Poverty reigns, and government programs are hampered by the huge bites foreign debt and corruption take from the budget. Faith in law and order is nonexistent. Reports of kidnappings in Manila?most are not reported because families would rather pay ransom than deal with the police?and firefights in the south have laid waste to the tourism industry. And now the international war on terrorism has come to her shores, but the possibility of a victory in the long-running skirmish against Abu Sayyaf has been complicated by assertions that by inviting...
Bowers was apparently in Afghanistan on a privately organized humanitarian mission when a local Afghan warlord captured him and his interpreter and held them for ransom, according to the story his wife relayed to her local newspaper in Birmingham...
Bowers was apparently in Afghanistan on a privately organized humanitarian mission when a local Afghan warlord captured him and his interpreter and held them for ransom, according to the story his wife relayed to her local newspaper in Birmingham...
...groups--its specialty is beheadings--has been supported by al-Qaeda. Abdurajak Janjalani, the group's late founder, fought in Afghanistan, reportedly with bin Laden and Yousef. The links may be a thing of the past; these days Abu Sayyaf's style runs more to kidnapping and ransom than to jihad. Still, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo recently said Khalifa had offered to secure the release by Abu Sayyaf of 18 hostages, including an American missionary couple...
...groups-its specialty is beheadings-has been supported by al-Qaeda. Abdurajak Janjalani, the group's late founder, fought in Afghanistan, reportedly with bin Laden and Yousef. The links may be a thing of the past; these days Abu Sayyaf's style runs more to kidnapping and ransom than to jihad. Still, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo recently said Khalifa had offered to secure the release by Abu Sayyaf of 18 hostages, including an American missionary couple...