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Armed rebels who recently ended an 'oil war' in Nigeria's oil-rich Delta region told AFP they freed 19 hostages Sunday. Sunday morning 'the Nigerian hostages rescued from pirates by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta have been released More...

LAGOS (AFP) - Armed rebels who recently ended an 'oil war' in Nigeria's oil-rich Delta region told AFP they freed 19 hostages Sunday. Sunday morning 'the Nigerian hostages rescued from pirates by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta More...

LAGOS (AFP)--Armed rebels who recently ended an 'oil war' in Nigeria's oil- rich Delta region told AFP they freed 19 hostages Sunday. Sunday morning 'the Nigerian hostages rescued from pirates by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta have More...

  Recs: 2 Now that the crooks have our money, they'll kill the hostages who'd a thunk?!?

Somali Pirates Held Record 374 Hostages in September By Paul Okolo Oct. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Pirates operating off the coast of Somalia held 374 hostages last month, a record high, a maritime security company said. The pirates abducted seafarers from several countries in September, and the total held surpassed the 292 people taken in all of 2007, Hans Hansen, managing ...

Italian former hostages contradict official acounts of their release. More...

Freed hostages return from Egypt Five German tourists held hostage in Egypt for 10 days arrived back in Germany on Tuesday, the German government announced. More...

All 19 hostages taken by gunmen in a remote desert area of Egypt more than a week ago have been freed. Link To Original Article

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/af...138145429.h tml Freed tourists arrive in Cairo The freed hostages were greeted at the airport by a large delegation of Egyptian officials A group of European and Egyptian hostages kidnapped in Egypt's Western Desert 10 days ago have arrived in Egypt aboard a military aircraft following their rescue. Egyptian ...

Quote: Originally Posted by kato No reports from the German official side, only a audio-only podcast. German foreign minister "thanks in particular the Sudanese and Egyptian officials involved in the operation". According to Swiss newspaper NZZ, German officials have stated that German units were involved in the operation, a ...

Daily Sunshine: Your point? Things happen in war. typical neo-con talking point The Syrian government have there hands in something a little bit different then a battle field. 100% proof please?  Also, shouldn't they sue Al-Qaeda There is no Al-Qaeda  then considering they are the ones running death squads and interrupting the process towards freedom? source? You forget ...

Calvert Authorities Find Children's Frozen Corpses Washington, DC, USA According to investigators, the 7-year-old girl had been living as a prisoner in a home on Buckskin Trail Lane since February, but few in the neighborhood ... http://www.myfoxdc.com/myfox/pages/N...Y&pageI d=3.1.1 Freeingprisons of sex violence Philadelphia, PA, USA Unfortunately, prisoner rape jokes remain ...

Some of the 19 tourists and guides kidnapped in the Sahara Desert were lined up ready to be shot when their captors told them all to take one car and leave. They piled in – some clinging to the roof – and drove 200 miles to safety with a GPS (Global Positioning Satellite) to guide them. Their stories of escape after ten days in captivity, conflict with reports from Egyptian security ...

And how much will USA pay for families of victims of US criminal activity in Iraq and Afghanistan? USA must keep propriate proportions and have a common sense.

Nairobi/Abuja - Nigerian oil militants Sunday said they had released 19 Nigerian oil workers kidnapped two weeks ago but said they would hold on to a Briton and two Ukrainians taken at the same time. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta More...