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The story of Midsi's alleged kidnapping began when the last school bell rang Thursday at 3:05 p.m. at Highland Elementary School in Vallejo. The girl, who was supposed to walk home with her older brother, wandered ahead of him.
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March 7, 2004 It has been a year since Elizabeth Smart returned home, her kidnapping an event that changed her family and the community. Now the focus is on . . . 'Going Forward' - by Stephen Hunt, The Salt Lake Tribune, Utah (A year ago this Friday, the world learned Elizabeth Smart was alive and essentially well after spending nine months living in the woods and on the road with a homeless street preacher and his wife. Elizabeth's reappearance was met with joy, amazement -- and a nationwide media frenzy...)
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All that said, well-to-do Mexicans do worry about kidnapping. It happens. But it doesn't happen as often as the media would have you believe. They know the precautions to take, but their situation is not the same as yours, as a tourist or a gringo expat.
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MEND has threatened to resume attacks on oil facilities in the Niger Delta and kidnapping of foreigners, ending a four-month ceasefire. The threat follows the arrest of a factional leader of MEND, Henry Okah, in Angola on arms trafficking.
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TMZ is reporting that the Long Island hospital where Jennifer Lopez is set to give birth is practicing "pink drills," which is code for preventing a possible kidnapping. Lopez, who is expected to give birth to twins any day now, is rumored to have chosen North Shore Medical Center as her birthing hospital.
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The U.S. military says 4 men have been arrested in connection with the kidnapping of journalist Jill Carroll. The Christian Science Monitor reporter was abducted by armed men in Baghdad in January and freed 82 days later.
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