Recap On The U.S. Navy SEAL Rescue Of Kidnap Victims In Somalia

U.S. Hostage Jessica Buchanan Reunited With Husband And Dad After Dramatic Rescue In Somalia By Bin Laden Navy SEALs Team -- Daily Mail *...

Mexico Is The Kidnap Capital Of The World

Think Kidnapping Is Bad In Somalia? It's Worse In Mexico -- L.A. Times Somalia is a hot spot for kidnapping, as the rescue Wednesday of ...

The International Business Of Seizing And Kidnapping Hostages

Police in Nigeria estimate that ransoms paid there for hostages between 2006 and 2008 exceeded $100m. Getty Images The £1 Billion Hostage Tr...

Freed Hostages Released In The Sahara Contradict Official Government Reports

Released German hostages, of whom no names were made public, leave an airplane at the airport Tegel in Berlin, Germany, Sept. 30, 2008. Five...

Commando Raid Frees Tour Group Seized In Egypt

Officials in Cairo greet a plane carrying the European tourists freed after a 10-day kidnap ordeal. Photograph: Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Ima...

After Drugs, Kidnapping Is The Taliban's Number 2 Money Maker

For the Taliban, A Crime That Pays -- Newsweek How ransom kidnappings, once a rarity in most of Afghanistan, have become a cash source secon...