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Research Topics on: kidnappings

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Books on: kidnappings

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Journal Articles on: kidnappings

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Magazine Articles on: kidnappings

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Newspaper Articles on: kidnappings

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    SMASHING THE SIEGE; the Brazen IRA Kidnapping of a Dutch Industrialist 35 Years Ago This Month Pushed the Troubles to Boiling Point
    Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 27, 2010
    Subjects: 
    Industrialists, Kidnapping
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...SIEGE; the Brazen IRA Kidnapping of a Dutch Industrialist...State, prompted by the kidnapping in broad daylight of...any case lead to more kidnappings. And so the tightrope...though there were other kidnappings, it is arguable that...and Coyle since the kidnapping, though he refused...
     
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    Kidnapping, the Threat That Doesn't Require Vast Resources; ANALYSIS
    Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), January 31, 2007
    Subjects: 
    Kidnapping
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...skills. The advantage of kidnapping is that you dont require...detect. Furthermore, with a kidnapping you get prolonged media attention...have seen in Iraq with the kidnappings carried about by Abu Musab...taking. Think of Ken Bigleys kidnapping and how it went on for weeks...
     
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    22-Year Sentence for Kidnapping
    Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February 8, 2008
    Subjects: 
    Gangs--Cases, Kidnapping--Cases
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    22-Year Sentence for Kidnapping. Byline: Adam Kovac akovac...Thursday to his role in a kidnapping that started at a Round Lake...counts of attempted aggravated kidnapping in the abductions of six...members convicted in the kidnappings at Villas restaurant. Another...
     
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    Sunnis and Shiites in Kidnapping En Masse
    Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), November 15, 2006
    Subjects: 
    Kidnapping, Shiites, Sunnites
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    Sunnis and Shiites in Kidnapping En Masse. Gunmen wearing...national catastrophe". The kidnapping is the largest of any group...visiting at the time of the kidnappings said the gunmen forced men...todays incident was a mass kidnapping and demanded that US troops...
     
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    Kidnapping Is Kidnapping Is Kidnapping
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 3, 2006
    Subjects: 
    Kidnapping
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    Kidnapping Is Kidnapping Is Kidnapping. Byline: THE WASHINGTON TIMES We grieve with the parents whose Japanese children were abducted by North Korean agents ("Japan presses N. Korea to resolve abduction issue," World, Saturday). Congress...
     

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Encyclopedia Articles on: kidnappings

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    Kidnapping
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    KIDNAPPING in law, the taking away of a person...him to be detained against his will. Kidnapping may be done for ransom or for political...attempt to abduct. Under common law kidnapping was only a misdemeanor , but in most...
     
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    Colombia
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...rebels in 2000 and 2001 were marred by rebel attacks and kidnappings and fighting between rebels and paramilitaries for control...demobilization of some paramilitaries began. The Dec., 2004, kidnapping by bounty hunters in Venezuela of a FARC leader, who was...
     
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    Botero, Fernando
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Colombia, his work became much darker (though unchanged in style) as he created paintings and drawings of the periods kidnappings, massacres, torture, and death. He has continued exploring these themes in paintings that depict the abuse of detainees...
     
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    Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...prosecution, and he was later charged with involvement in kidnappings and murders that occurred after the coup. The Chilean supreme...New investigations began in 2004, leading to charges of kidnapping and murder and, prompted by revelations of Pinochets secret...
     
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    Nigeria
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...cuts in Nigerias oil production as large as 25% at times. Since early 2006 the Niger Delta area has seen an increase in kidnappings of foreign oil workers and attacks on oil operations; the resulting government focus on protecting oil facilities allowed...
     

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