Ransom payments
December 30th, 2008Ransom payments
Ransom payments set maps free
Jared Benedict raised enough money to centralize 56,000 digital topographic maps in the Internet Archive and make them available for free download. (more...)
Washington Times - U.S. helps ransom Reyes' kin
U.S. law enforcement authorities helped facilitate a $32,000 ransom payment in Mexico for a relative of a U.S. congressman who was kidnapped last week by gunmen in Ciudad Juarez, a ... (more...)
Ransom definition | Dictionary.com
Ransom the price or payment made for our redemption, as when it is said that the Son of man "gave his life a ransom for many" (Matt. 20:28; comp. (more...)
Pirates collect $150 million in ransoms - CNN.com
... months ago, pirates preferred to be paid through a complicated web of bank transfers using offshore jurisdictions, according to a maritime security source now involved with ransom ... (more...)
FOXNews.com - U.S. Facilitated Ransom to Abu Sayyaf - U.S. & World
U.S. Facilitated Ransom to Abu Sayyaf, Breaking with tradition, the United States government facilitated the payment of ransom to Al Qaeda-linked terrorists in the Philippines last ... (more...)
PHCN to drag NERC to court over dispute with Lagos - Businessday Online
Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) has vowed to seek judicial review at the Federal High Court over the ruling by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) that it has jurisdiction to entertain the petition brought before it by the ... (more...)
Somali kidnappers free British journalist - International Herald Tribune
BOSASSO, Somalia : Somali kidnappers have freed two foreign journalists abducted last November in the northern port of Bosasso, local officials said on Sunday. Colin Freeman, a correspondent for the Sunday Telegraph, and Spanish freelance ... (more...)
Somali Kidnappers Release Westerners - Post Chronicle
Somali kidnappers have freed two foreign journalists abducted last November in the northern port of Bosasso, local officials said on Sunday. Briton Colin Freeman, a correspondent for the Sunday Telegraph, and Spanish freelance photographer Jose ... (more...)
Somali kidnappers release Western journalists - Reuters UK
BOSASSO, Somalia (Reuters) - Somali kidnappers have freed two foreign journalists abducted last November in the northern port of Bosasso, local officials said on Sunday. Briton Colin Freeman, a correspondent for the Sunday Telegraph, and Spanish ... (more...)
Somali kidnappers release two journalists - Presstv
Somali abductors have released two foreign journalists, who had been kidnapped in the northern port city of Bosasso last November. Colin Freeman, a correspondent for Britain's Sunday Telegraph, and Spanish freelance photographer Jose Cendon were ... (more...)