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Swiss Couple Claims to Have Escaped Taliban

Taliban say ransom paid, prisoners exchanged

(Newser) - A Swiss couple kidnapped by the Taliban while vacationing in Pakistan last July turned up at a Pakistani army post today. The Taliban say a ransom was paid, but David Och and Daniela Widmer claim they escaped, reports the Christian Science Monitor . The couple had appeared in a Taliban video...

Baby Kidnapped in 2004 to Be Reunited With Mom

Houston case is solved, as is one near Syracuse

(Newser) - Two moms will get reunions with children who were kidnapped years ago, neither one by a stranger:
  • Houston: Miguel Morin disappeared in 2004 at age 8 months with a woman his mother considered a friend, reports Click2Houston . Police finally got a break this week when the woman's sister called
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Girl, 7, Foils Would-Be Kidnapper at Walmart

Thomas A. Woods charged with attempted kidnapping

(Newser) - Scary security footage from a Georgia Walmart shows a man attempting to snatch a 7-year-old girl, who manages to get away from him. Authorities have charged Thomas A. Woods, 25—who was on parole after a conviction of voluntary manslaughter—with attempted kidnapping, the AP reports. The girl, whom the...

American: Egyptian Kidnappers 'Treated Us Like Family'

Woman continues her travels, despite kidnapping

(Newser) - The Bedouin tribesmen who kidnapped two American tourists and their guide in Egypt yesterday were "very nice" and "treated us like family,” said one of the kidnapped women, reports MSNBC . "I was not at all afraid,” said the woman, who does not want to be...

Gunmen Kidnap 2 Female American Tourists in Egypt
Egypt Kidnappers Release
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Egypt Kidnappers Release 2 American Tourists

Bedouin tribesmen free hostages after negotiations

(Newser) - Two female American tourists and their Egyptian guide were freed today, hours after they were abducted at gunpoint near St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai Peninsula. Local police chief Maj. Gen. Mohammed Naguib says the three were released after negotiations with Bedouin tribesmen. The three were seized from a...

American Travel Writer Kidnapped in Somalia

Michael Scott Moore was considering writing a book about Somali pirates

(Newser) - Somali gunmen have kidnapped noted travel and surfing writer Michael Scott Moore, and are demanding an unknown ransom for his release. Moore, a Manhattan Beach native currently living in Berlin, holds both US and German citizenship. He was in Somalia because he was considering writing a book about Somali pirates,...

Rescued Aid Worker Loved Africa

Details emerging on Jessica Buchanan, saved in Navy SEAL raid

(Newser) - Jessica Buchanan, the American aid worker rescued in a Navy SEAL overnight raid , first came to Africa as a student teacher in Nairobi. "That experience just planted in her a love and passion for Africa," says the president of the Pennsylvania Christian college from which Buchanan graduated in...

Obama Learned of SEALs' Success Before SOTU

President had ordered Jessica Buchanan's rescue Monday night

(Newser) - If President Obama was smiling last night, it's partly because just hours before the State of the Union he'd taken a phone call telling him that the Navy SEALs rescue of Jessica Buchanan and a companion had been a success, Politico reports. Some 15 minutes after the speech—...

SEALs Raid Frees Yank, Dane in Somalia

Nine pirates reportedly killed as aid workers rescued by same team who killed bin Laden

(Newser) - Navy SEALs, reportedly the same team that took out Osama bin Laden, launched a daring helicopter raid early today in Somalia, freeing an American and a Danish aid worker held by kidnappers since October , reports MSNBC . Helicopters landed just outside the pirates' camp in the pre-dawn hours, entering the camp...

Soccer Star Busted in Mexico Kidnappings

Omar Ortiz allegedly helped gang identify rich targets to kidnap

(Newser) - A disgraced Mexican soccer goalkeeper has been arrested for allegedly helping a gang of kidnappers, reports MSNBC . Omar Ortiz, known as "El Gato" ("The Cat"), is accused of helping a gang identify rich targets for kidnapping, earning more than 10% of each victim's $73,000 ransom....

Kidnapped Monkey Back in SF Zoo

Returned by man who said he coaxed victim into his backpack

(Newser) - A monkey simian-napped from the San Francisco Zoo was returned by a man who said he coaxed the animal from the bushes at a nearby park into his backpack. The 17-year-old spider monkey, Banana Sam, was "hungry, trembling and thirsty," but healthy, said a zoo worker. He was...

Philippine Cops Rescue Kidnapped American Boy

Captors had demanded more money after getting first ransom

(Newser) - Philippine police rescued a kidnapped 4-year-old American boy this week after his captors demanded a second ransom. Gunmen pulled the boy out of a car he was riding in with his Filipino mother on Dec. 6, according to the AP . His family paid his ransom three days later, but the...

Kidnapped US Teen Outwits Terrorist Captors

Al-Qaeda-linked thugs held Kevin Lunsmann five months

(Newser) - A 14-year-old American hostage managed to outwit his terrorist captors and flee to freedom in a Philippines jungle. Kevin Lunsmann, who had been held captive for five months by a group likely linked to al-Qaeda, wandered for two days before he was discovered by villagers, reports ABC News . "I...

Al-Qaeda Says It's Holding Kidnapped American

Assailants in Pakistan grabbed Warren Weinstein in August

(Newser) - More than three months after gunmen kidnapped a 70-year-old American development worker in Pakistan, some news has finally emerged: al-Qaeda says it has Warren Weinstein, reports the Christian Science Monitor . Weinstein, who has a home in Rockville, Maryland, was captured at his residence in Lahore. In a new video, al-Qaeda...

8 Charged in Ramos Kidnapping

74-year-old man among Venezuela suspects

(Newser) - Venezuelan authorities have formally charged eight suspects in the kidnapping of Washington Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos . Prosecutors say the charges include kidnapping, illegal possession of firearms, using a stolen vehicle, and criminal association. The suspects include six men accused of directly participating in the abduction, as well as a 59-year-old...

MLB Catcher: 'Mama, I'm Good —They Freed Me'

Wilson Ramos is home after kidnapping

(Newser) - The details on his rescue are still a little thin, but Washington Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos is back home in Venezuela unharmed. "The truth is I'm still very nervous, but thanks to God everything turned out well," he told state television, according to AP . Five people were...

Kidnapped Baseball Player Rescued in Venezuela

Wilson Ramos of the Washington Nationals is reportedly fine

(Newser) - The words everyone wanted to hear regarding the kidnapping of Washington Nationals baseball player Wilson Ramos in Venezuela: "They got him. He's safe." His agent tells the Washington Post that police rescued him somewhere in the mountains of central Venezuela. A government official has confirmed the news....

Kidnapped Nationals Catcher Alive: Cops

Venezuela police find kidnappers' vehicle, but not him

(Newser) - The kidnappers of Washington Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos still haven’t contacted his family, but Venezuelan police have tweeted to “confirm” the ballplayer is alive without providing details. In what officials say is a major breakthrough, they have found the vehicle kidnappers used to abduct Ramos, the Washington Post...

Washington Nationals Catcher Kidnapped

Gunmen in Venezuela seize Wilson Ramos

(Newser) - Washington Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos has been abducted by gunmen in his hometown in Venezuela. The 24-year-old player was taken away in an SUV by four men who stormed his family's home in Santa Ines, some 100 miles west of Caracas, said a spokeswoman for his winter team, the...

Tortured Teen Held 10 Years by Dungeon Keeper: Cops

Case 'makes you want to cry,' says Philly police commissioner

(Newser) - Police rescued eight children from a Philadelphia home where four mentally disabled adults were found chained in a cellar . The kids ranged in age from a 2-year-old to a 19-year-old girl, who had been snatched 10 years ago and tortured so horribly it " makes you want to cry ,"...

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