Abducted Irish priest now missing 4 weeks today in Philippines

Father Sinnott, a Colombian priest based in Pagadian in the Philippines, was abducted and held for ransom exactly 4 weeks ago today. Father Sinnott was born in Co. Wexford in Ireland and is 79 years old.  He underwent quadruple bypass surgery in 2005 and...

Family, FBI Asking for Help in Closing Year-Old Kidnapping Case

Robert was due to catch a commercial flight to Dallas for a business meeting but never got on the plane. He left personal items behind, including his computer, his truck and his bag. Robert Wiles parents ...

Hacker steals patient records in Virginia: demands $10M ransom

The FBI is currently investigating a $10 million ransom demand from a hacker, or a group of hackers, who, on April 30, appear to have broken in to the Virginia government site and stolen patient records that also records that track prescription drug abuse. About 8.3 million...

Taliban Still Holding Canadian Hostage Beverly Giesbrecht

    Toronto's Globe and Mail reports that the Taliban has shelved their plans to behead Canadian hostage Beverly Giesbrecht (aka Khadija Abdul Qahaar), but she is still being held in an unknown tribal...

New Theories in DB Cooper Skyjacking Case

An new theory on the 1971 unsolved skyjacking case - a canadian connection where by a French comic originally created in the 1950s had as its hero Dan Cooper, a Royal Canadian Air Force test pilot serving in...

Darfur aid workers are free after kidnapping ordeal in the Sudan

The Italian Forestry Ministry has just released a statement saying that the Doctors Without Borders members who were taken in Darfur almost two days ago are now free.It is now confirmed that they were released an hour ago:" Four aid workers with French-based medical charity...

18 Pinoy seamen kidnap by Somali pirates for 71days finally home

Eighteen Filipino seamen from the Maltese-flagged MV Centauri who were held captive by Somali pirates  in the high seas for 71 days finally came home yesterday afternoon, in time to be with their families for...

Soggy Somali Pirate and cash washes ashore

Just days after the $3 million ransom payment and subsequent release of the Saudi supertanker held ransom by Somali pirates, the body of one of the newly wealthy Somalians has been recovered, loot in tow.  The body of the pirate was apparently accompanied by $153 000...

Somali Pirates Have Connections in North America

Somali pirates are believed to have extended networks of cooperators in North America. Somali expatriates living in Canada and the US are believed to offer financial and administrative support to the pirates,...

140 Tourist Hostages, world runs wild in credit crisis, ransom 275 Euro

Pirate ransom copied by turkish hotel owner Don't go for holidays to Turkey Turkish Hotel owner takes Belgium and French Tourist as hostages, 140 French Tourist hostages threatened, no food, turkish Hotel owner...

After losing in stock market, 2 MBA students kidnap boy in New Delhi

Police in the Indian capital New Delhi have arrested two management graduates who had kidnapped a schoolboy for ransom after losing their money in the stock market meltdown.The two men allegedly hired goons and kidnapped a 14-year-old boy from a southern Delhi...

Kidnapped aid worker freed by Abu Sayyaf

Kidnapping activities seem like a game of forever. I wonder when will this end."Abu Sayyaf kidnappers released before dawn Thursday one of two abducted humanitarian workers after ransom was paid, ending her 45-day ordeal on the island-province of Basilan."

Somali pirates may extend deadline, before destroying ship with crewmembers

Somali pirates holding an arms-laden Ukrainian tanker off Somalia may extend the deadline on their threat to destroy the vessel with the crewmembers, a spokesman said Monday. " In Kiev, angry relatives of the...

Hijacked Ship: Ransom Reduced as Crew member Dies

The captain of a ship carrying military equipment, hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia, has told the AP that one crewmember is dead. Meanwhile, the pirates have reduced their ransom demand, apparently realizing that asking for $35 million would only encourage an...

Egypt desert tourists freed after three-day ordeal

Finally after long drawn negotiation abducted foreign tourist have been released. The Egypt tourism ministry said those snatched included five Germans, five Italians and a Romanian, while MENA said two Egyptian...

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