Showing posts with label Kidnapping. Show all posts
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Saturday, December 27, 2014

Southern border war continues

December 27, 2014 Kidnapping , Nadia Galindo 0 Comments
Police: Cartel Claims They Have Kidnapped Border Patrol Agent

Nadia Galindo, Dec. 26, 2014, Action News 4

Border Patrol is making contact with all personnel in the Rio Grande Valley sector at this time.

They have now confirmed that all agents working the day of the threat have been accounted for.

Now, they are working to verify all those off-duty at the time of the threat are safe.

Read more: www.valleycentral.com

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Sunday, November 9, 2014

Where are they?

November 09, 2014 David Agren , Enrique Peña Nieto 0 Comments
Mexicans Increasingly Angry At President Peña Nieto Amid Disappearance Of 43 Students

David Agren, Nov. 7, 2014, Fox News Latino

Mexican President Enrique Pe̱a Nieto planned to enact new rules for the energy sector on Monday Рanother step toward opening an industry he says will spur investment and economic growth.

His time at the podium, however, tilted toward the case of 43 missing teaching school students, who authorities allege were abducted in late September in the town of Iguala in the state of Guerrero by crooked cops acting in cahoots with organized crime.

The president called for another multi-party alliance – not unlike the previous “Pacto por México,” which allowed him to get approval for 11 structural reforms in just 20 months – to curb crime and pacify a population outraged over so many students going missing and remaining unaccounted for six weeks.

Read more: latino.foxnews.com


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Friday, November 7, 2014

Happy ending

November 07, 2014 Carlesha Freeland-Gaither , Kidnapping 0 Comments
Philly Woman Found Alive After Abduction Caught On a Tape, Suspected Kidnapper Captured

Rachelle Blidner, Nov. 5, 2014, New York Daily News

A Philadelphia woman whose shocking abduction was caught on tape was found alive and her suspected kidnapper was taken into police custody Wednesday, according to authorities.

22-year-old Carlesha Freeland-Gaither was found in Jessup, Maryland, with minor injuries, Philadelphia authorities said.

Read more: www.nydailynews.com

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Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Tape Of Desperate Pleas From Kidnapped Nigerian Pupils Held In Jungle --Boko Haram wants Sharia law in all Nigeria

June 03, 2014 Boko Haram , Child Sex Trafficking 0 Comments
By Barbara Jones in Abuja, Nigeria, May 31, 2014, Dailymail.co.uk

Hostage schoolgirl EXCLUSIVE: Mail on Sunday hears tape of desperate pleas from kidnapped Nigerian pupils held in jungle with one saying ‘I never expected to suffer like this so much in my life.'

A heartbreaking new video of the Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamic extremists shows them bravely speaking out about their ordeal for the first time.

The footage, not released publicly but seen by The Mail on Sunday, was taken in a jungle clearing a month after their abduction.

More than 250 girls were taken in a raid on their school in Chibok, in Nigeria’s north-east, on April 14 by Boko Haram terrorists, who want to impose Sharia law on the country.

The girls in the video look healthy, but it is understood that fraught negotiations are under way to broker the release several pupils who have fallen ill, including one with a broken wrist.

In the video, eight girls, dressed in their home-made school uniforms of pale blue gingham, plead for release as they stand courageously in front of the camera. They are clearly scared, upset and trying to be brave.

Each of them walks in turn to a spot in front of a white sheet fixed to a crude frame between the trees.

Four of them can be heard clearly, in their Hausa language, stating that they were taken by force and that they are hungry. A tall girl, aged about 18, says tearfully: ‘My family will be so worried.’

Another, speaking softly, says: ‘I never expected to suffer like this in my life.’ A third says: ‘They have taken us away by force.’ The fourth girl complains: ‘We are not getting enough food.’

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Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Boko Haram Kills At Least 31 Nigerian Security Personnel --World has few options without entanglement

May 27, 2014 Boko Haram , Child Sex Trafficking 0 Comments
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau speaks at an unknown location 
in this still image taken from an undated video released 
by Nigerian Islamist rebel group Boko Haram.
Credit:  Reuters
By Joe Hemba and Lanre Ola, May 27, 2014, Reuters.com
(Reuters) - Boko Haram gunmen attacked a Nigerian military base and adjacent police barracks in the northeastern town of Buni Yadi, killing 31 security personnel, security sources and witnesses said.

 The attack late on Monday in Yobe state occurred not far from where the Islamist insurgents shot or burned to death 59 pupils at a boarding school in February.

 The militants, whose violent struggle for an Islamic state in northern Nigeria has killed thousands and made them the biggest threat to security in Africa's top oil-producing state, are still holding more than 200 girls kidnapped on April 14, an act which provoked international outrage.

 Yobe police spokesman Nansak Chegwam said he was aware of the attack but could provide no further details.

 A resident of Buni Yadi, who identified himself only as Mustafa for fear of retribution, said the militants arrived in an armored personnel carrier and six Toyota pickup trucks before dismounting and firing into the air.

 They fired rocket propelled grenades at both bases.

 A senior security source in Yobe state said 17 soldiers were killed and 14 police officers also died.

 In what has become rare for a movement that has killed thousands of civilians in the past year, Boko Harm called out to people on the street not to run away as they had only come for the security forces, Mustafa and the security source said.

 The insurgents also razed the police barracks, the army base, the high court and residence of district head Abba Hassan.

 "One was shouting in English to the others: 'Let's go, let's go. Finish this and let's go'," a policeman who escaped the attack and fled to the state capital Damturu said.

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Monday, May 19, 2014

Nigeria’s Boko Haram Isn’t Just About Western Education

May 19, 2014 #BringBackOurGirls , Boko Haram 0 Comments
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By Sarah Chayes, May 16, 2014, Washingtonpost.com

Sarah Chayes, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, is the author of the forthcoming book “Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens International Security.”

A few Ni­ger­ian teenagers who managed to escape are telling their stories: how some 300 of their classmates were wrenched from their sleep at a village boarding school and hauled off in a stampede of trucks and motorcycles. The attack has captured international attention like few terrorist incidents since 9/11.

But amid the pressure to respond to the anguish, the United States is right not to overdo its counterterrorism assistance to Abuja. As has become an unfortunate pattern where terrorism is concerned, officials might reinforce the root of the problem in their impulse to hack off the branch. For much of the responsibility for the rise of the Boko Haram extremist group may lie with the Nigerian government itself.

Officially designated a foreign terrorist organization by the State Department in November, Boko Haram burst into public view in 2009 with a series of attacks on public buildings in northeastern Nigeria. A brutal counteroffensive by Nigerian security services followed, leaving hundreds dead.

The precise structure and membership of Boko Haram and its affiliates, and even the tenets of their extremist ideology, are unclear. Nigerians I spoke with on a research trip late last year unanimously condemned the group’s violent tactics, as well as its focus on imposing a locally outlandish brand of Islam.

Still, it has a real following in the country’s impoverished northeast. “Ninety-five percent of our youth in Borno have a connection to them,” Biye Peter Gumtha, a national assembly member from the region, recently told German radio. “Young men without prospects are open to radical offers.”

With the highest oil production in Africa, ample rainfall in half the country, good soil and resourceful people, Nigeria should be enjoying the benefits of economic growth. But its development outcomes have fallen since an oil boom began in the 1980s. Why so little return on such vast wealth? Because the government has been stealing the money.

In February, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan fired his respected central bank governor, who was investigating the disappearance of some $20 billion in oil revenue over a mere 18 months. Jonathan and his network are believed to have siphoned off most of the cash — with laundering help from local and international banks.

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Sunday, May 18, 2014

Guns Save Lives… ARMED Nigerian Villagers Defeat Boko Haram – Over 200 Terrorists Killed

Guns Save Lives… ARMED Nigerian Villagers Defeat Boko Haram – Over 200 Terrorists Killed

May 18, 2014 Boko Haram , Child Sex Trafficking 0 Comments
By Jim Hoft, May 17, 2014, Thegatewaypundit.com 

CNN reported:

 Residents of three villages in northeastern Nigeria took security into their own hands this week, repelling attacks by Boko Haram insurgents and killing more than 200 of them, residents and officials said.

 Hundreds of Boko Haram fighters stormed the villages of Menari, Tsangayari and Garawa in the ethnic Shuwa-dominated Kalabalge District on Tuesday. Boko Haram — the group responsible for the kidnapping of nearly 300 schoolgirls from the same region — was met with stiff resistance as locals put up a fierce fight, witnesses said.

 A month has passed since the girls were kidnapped, and the Nigerian government has been accused of not acting swiftly or efficiently enough to protect villages in the region threatened by Boko Haram.

 In the three villages attacked Tuesday, gunmen arrived in dozens of all-terrain vans, armored tanks and motorcycles, but villagers quickly mobilized and engaged the attackers in a prolonged battle.

 “They attacked Menari and killed around 60 people and burned some homes before proceeding to Tsangayari and Garawa villages,” resident Algoni Ahunna said.

 When news of the attack filtered out, people trooped out from nearby villages carrying arms.

 Locals seized an armored tank, three all-terrain vans and 90 motorcycles from the attackers, residents said.

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Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Nigeria Abducted Girls: Boko Haram Leader Claims Captives Converted To Islam

Nigeria Abducted Girls: Boko Haram Leader Claims Captives Converted To Islam

May 13, 2014 Boko Haram , Child Sex Trafficking 0 Comments
By Aminu Abubakar, Faith Karimi and Michael Pearson, May 13, 2014, CNN

(CNN) -- The girls sit quietly on the ground, dressed in traditional Islamic garb, barely moving, clearly scared.

"Praise be to Allah, the lord of the world," they chant.

The video, released by French news agency Agence France-Presse, purports to show about 100 of the 276 girls kidnapped byBoko Haram fighters nearly a month ago. It's the first time they've been seen since their abduction April 14.

In separate shots included in the 27-minute video, a man says he will release the girls only after imprisoned members of Boko Haram are freed, according to AFP.

The man identifies himself as Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau. Nigerian officials disputed that claim on Monday, arguing that Shekau is dead. Other experts say the notorious terror group leader is still alive.

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Sunday, May 11, 2014

Boko Haram--'Allah Says We Should Finish [Christians] When We Get Them'

May 11, 2014 #BringBackOurGirls , Boko Haram 0 Comments
Malala Yousefzey
By Michael, Rubin, May 8, 2014, Aei.org

When Islamist terrorists seized more than 1,000 school children in Beslan, North Ossetia, abusing and ultimately murdering hundreds, the international response was pure and utter revulsion. Chechen and Daghestani separatists—and even many Islamists—could stomach no excuse for the action and rejected the religious justification espoused by the mostly Ingush and Chechen terrorists. Indeed, rather than enhance the Chechen or Daghestani causes, the Beslan massacre marked the end of most remaining international and Islamist sympathy for their struggles against a brutal and abusive Russian regime.

If there is any silver lining to the horror occurring in northeastern Nigeria, it is that Boko Haram’s kidnapping of several hundred Nigerian school girls—and the leader’s threats to sell them off like chattel—may be a bridge to far for even those sympathetic to more militant strains of Islamism. And make no mistake, what Boko Haram is doing is rooted in Islam, albeit an archaic and twisted interpretation of it far from the mainstream. Indeed, anyone who denies the religious component has simply ignored the statement of Abubakar Shekau, Boko Haram’s leader and the man apparently responsible for the kidnapping, in his claim of responsibility:

My brethren in Islam, I am greeting you in the name of Allah like he instructed we should among Muslims. Allah is great and has given us privilege and temerity above all people. If we meet infidels, if we meet those that become infidels according to Allah, there is no any talk except hitting of the neck; I hope you chosen people of Allah are hearing. This is an instruction from Allah. It is not a distorted interpretation it is from Allah himself. This is from Allah on the need for us to break down infidels, practitioners of democracy, and constitutionalism, voodoo and those that are doing western education, in which they are practicing paganism…

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Saturday, May 10, 2014

Michelle Knight Tells Dr Phil That Ariel Castro Would Leave Her Bound With Extension Cords And Hanging For Days

May 10, 2014 Amanda Berry , Ariel Castro 1 Comments
Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight
By Rachel Quigley, Nov. 4, 2014, Dailymail.co.uk

 Cleveland kidnapping victim Michelle Knight was strung up with orange extension chords by her neck and feet 'like a fish' for days without food or water during her 11 years in captivity, it emerged today.

 She made the revelations to Dr. Phil McGraw in an exclusive interview which will offer the first glimpse into life inside the 'House of Horrors' at the hands of Ariel Castro.

 Speaking of the unimaginable abuse she suffered, Michelle describes becoming Castro's prisoner: '[He used] one of those orange extension cords. I was tied up like a fish, an ornament on the wall. That's the only way I can describe it.

 'I was hanging like this by my feet and i was tied by my neck and my arms with the extension cord going like that.'

 In the interview, which will be aired on Tuesday and Wednesday night, she tells Dr. Phil that she would be left strung up like that for days, with no food or water. No way to go to the toilet.

 Scars: Michelle Knight tells Dr. Phil she still has nerve damage on her hands and feet because of the abuse she suffered

 She still has nerve damage on her hands and feet because of it.
Speaking ahead of the broadcast, Dr. Phil said: 'When you listen to her describe the horrible
living conditions and how she was treated, you wonder how anyone lasted a day let alone more than a decade.'

 The only thing that gave her hope throughout her time in captivity was her two-year-old son.

 'I'm fighting to stay alive for him,' she said in the excerpt, aired on the Today Show this morning.

 Michelle will be the first of Castro's three victims to publicly speak out at length about the horrors the women had to endure for more than a decade in the ramshackle Cleveland home before being rescued.

 Knight, Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus escaped on May 6 when Berry pushed out a door and yelled for help.

 Their kidnapper, Ariel Castro, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison. He hanged himself on September 3, just weeks into his sentence.

 During the exclusive interview with Dr. Phil viewers will hear in great details about the antics and torture that occurred Castro's Cleveland house of horrors.

 Read more:  www.dailymail.co.uk

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