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...with a high school classmate of Karr's. What they want is a yearbook signed by Karr with an inscription that includes the phrase "Though, deep in the future, maybe I shall be the conqueror." Could those last four words explain one of the enduring mysteries of the JonBenet ransom note, which ends with the baffling initials S.B.T.C...
Powerless to stop the killing, al-Maliki's government has also failed to improve the lot of the living. Crime continues to soar, especially the booming business of kidnapping for ransom. U.S. officials say as many as 40 Iraqis are kidnapped every day. Ransom demands range from thousands of dollars to millions; many victims are never heard from again. Services are a cruel joke. As summer temperatures climb to 120?, there has been no perceptible improvement in electricity or the water supply. And at a time when people desperately need their gasoline-powered generators to operate ceiling fans...
...publicly called for Shalit to be released unharmed. The militants holding the young soldier have said they are tending to his wounds and that he's being treated well, but they appear to be following the in tradition of Hezbollah in Lebanon by demanding extensive prisoner releases as the ransom for a captive Israeli...
...More than 200 foreigners have been kidnapped in Iraq since the start of the war in March 2003. But the thousands of Iraqis who have been kidnapped, usually for ransom, by bandits and gangs, dwarf that number. After news of her release filled the airwaves, the editor of the Christian Science Monitor, Richard Bergenheim, called for the release of all hostages in Iraq. "We hope this tide of opposition to criminal behavior will lead to the release of all other hostages as well," he said. "The Christian Science Monitor will not let these people be forgotten. The people of Iraq...
...years of violence and bloodshed. Nearly 900 people have been killed, many more maimed and hundreds have been blackmailed by the organization; those who failed to pay protection money often saw their businesses bombed or torched or were even kidnapped and held hostage until their families paid large ransom payments. ETA has long demanded independence from Spain for the Basques, who live in the border area between France and Spain. The more militant of its members call for the integration of the French Basque provinces into an independent Basque Country...