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He organised a kidnapping on foreign soil.

SAN FRANCISCO — Ending a sordid criminal ordeal that began two decades ago with a kidnapping on a South Lake Tahoe street, a convicted sex offender and his wife pleaded guilty on Thursday to the abduction, rape and imprisonment of Jaycee Lee Dugard.

In addition, there are long-term effects of a kidnapping on the ability of agencies to continue to work in a given context.

It is the apparently indiscriminate nature of the killing — as well as the brazenness of a daylight kidnapping on a busy thoroughfare — that has unsettled many.

Pentagon officials said nothing indicated that the incident on Mount Pinatubo was related to a kidnapping crisis on an island in the far south of the Philippines.

In 2008, Ethiopia foiled a kidnapping attempt on a group of 28 French tourists in the area.

See articleMexico's Supreme Court ordered the release of Florence Cassez, a French woman jailed in 2006 for allegedly belonging to a kidnapping gang, on the ground that the authorities had violated her legal rights during her arrest.

It has spawned a kidnapping business on shore, which in turn has scared away many humanitarian agencies and the food, medicine and other forms of desperately needed assistance they bring.

In the debut story, while driving to a costume ball dressed as a female version of Batman, Barbara Gordon intervenes in a kidnapping attempt on Bruce Wayne by the super villain Killer Moth, attracting Batman's attention and leading to a crime-fighting career.

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Mr. Sheikh, who had been arrested in India in 1994 on a kidnapping charge, spent five years in jail on the charge, but was never tried.