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The challenges of operating in Syria were underscored by the abduction of seven aid workers in northern Syria on Sunday.
India's foreign minister, Natwar Singh, said Saturday that he believed that the abduction of seven truck drivers on Wednesday -- three Indians, three Kenyans and an Egyptian -- was aimed at extracting ransom.
A so-called splinter group has been responsible for multiple kidnappings, including the recent abduction of seven foreign employees of a Lebanese company in northern Nigeria, which it said was in retaliation for France's intervention in Mali.
Chagnon's account of his first encounter with the tribe is legendary: he crept through the low entrance of a shabono, startling a group of Yanomami warriors — the dozen "filthy, hideous men" — who had just concluded a bloody club fight with a neighboring village over the abduction of seven women.
Reports related to the kidnapping industry, from the abduction of seven congressmen by a right-wing paramilitary group in October to the recent release of a 9-year-old girl held since March, are numbingly familiar in newspapers and on the nightly news.
Chowdhury was found guilty Tuesday by the three-judge tribunal of ordering the abduction of seven Hindus in April 1971, six of whom were tortured to death at the family's residence in Chittagong's Good Hills neighborhood.
He ticked off seven troubling events over the last month, including the abduction of four of his men.
The case is reminiscent of the abduction of two other activists – Igor Lutsenko and Yuri Verbytsky – who were kidnapped from a hospital last week.
He was also convicted for involvement in the abduction of two eight-year-olds, Julie Lejeune and Melissa Russo, who died of starvation in his basement.
He said Israel had been looking for a pretext to launch an offensive; the abduction of two of its soldiers two weeks ago gave it the perfect excuse.
The abduction of three Israeli soldiers by Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas Saturday has ratcheted up tensions between Israel and Syria, and brought threats of cross-border air strikes.
