Brutal kidnappers gaining in popularity
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The video posted last night showing the beheading of the American hostage Eugene Armstrong is the latest example of the ruthlessness of the Iraqi militant group responsible.
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Â· Alleged kidnappers posed as police to snatch family  Â· Prosthetic disguises used to hide faces, jury hears
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Annetta Flanigan from Northern Ireland, Filipino Angelito Nayan and Kosovan Shqipe Habibi were kidnapped in the Afghan capital, Kabul, last week.
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New accounts suggest that extremely aggressive interrogation techniques were more widespread at Guantanamo Bay than has previously been acknowledged by military officials.
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Triads are fuelling a trade that has seen a surge in violence in the aready crime-riddled Cape, writes Sam Kiley.
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Armed to the teeth, the kidnappers beat up a hapless guard, dragged a screaming Iraqi hostage by her hair and took off in broad daylight.
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The arrests of 32 young people on their way to a friendâs wake have gotten widespread attention; police say they feared gang violence.
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Tragic, despicable, inhumane, cowardly, barbaric, evil, and astonishing -- the deaths of a hundred or more people including children in a siege in Russia sparked strong words for the hostage-takers from world leaders.
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This is how a forensic psychiatrist described the dynamics likely playing out in the heads of the three key players in yesterday&#39;s hostage taking outside Union Station.
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The group, which launched a wave of kidnappings and attacks on oil pipelines earlier this year to press for the release of two of the oil-rich delta region's jailed leaders
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Two police officers have been burned alive by a mob of furious residents after the officers were mistaken for child kidnappers. The crowd, angered by recent kidnappings at a school in Mexico Cityâs south
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Conflicting reports of ransom demands, rescues and deaths cloud the search for a group of abducted Western security contractors
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With carefully scripted brutality, the  videotaped beheading of hostages in Iraq is a calculated  attempt to strike fear into the heart of the United States and  its allies.
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Thieves, rapists, kidnappers and hoaxers are preying on tsunami survivors and families of victims in Asian refugee camps and hospitals and in the home countries of European tourists hit by the wave.
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MELVERN, Kansas People in Melvern, Kansas, are stunned by the gruesome kidnap and murder case that&#39;s unfolded in their small town in recent days.
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The first night after he was snatched in Gaza nearly four months ago, BBC reporter Alan Johnston feared he was about to die. The kidnappers' masked leader appeared in the doorway, and moments later the prisoner was handcuffed, hooded and taken outside.
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Tragic, despicable, inhumane, cowardly,  barbaric, evil, and astonishing -- the deaths of a hundred or  more people including children in a siege in Russia sparked  strong words for the hostage-takers from world leaders.