The abduction set off a manhunt that stretched across the city, as well as a flurry of questions about the daylight escape and the Payne family, which included seven boys, ranging from 6 years old to 11, all named Nephra (with different middle names), and an 11-month-old girl named Nefertiti.
Abductions fell off after the siege of the insurgent stronghold Falluja a year ago.
The abductions set off a firestorm of outrage in Kosovo, with the country's Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj firing his top security officials for not informing him of the arrests.
The marauding rebels traumatized communities through different ways notable among which were; abductions, cutting off body parts, forcing people to kill and killing in humiliating ways as reported elsewhere [ 43, 44, 52].
Those operations included the so-called rendition of a pregnant woman and her husband, an opponent of Gaddafi, who were kidnapped in Thailand following an MI6 tip-off, and the abduction of a Libyan couple and their four children in Hong Kong.
One fax found in Tripoli showed that a senior MI6 officer, Mark Allen, insisted his agency should be given full credit for a tip-off that led to the abduction of Abdel Hakim Belhaj, a Gaddafi opponent who had been kidnapped in Thailand.
At a previous hearing he admitted sexual activity with a child, child abduction and making off without paying for two hotel rooms.
The abduction of our children and the news of them being married off is like hearing of the return of the slave trade," said Yakubu Ubalala, whose 17- and 18-year-old daughters Kulu and Maimuna are among the disappeared.
It wrought terror on the region through the mass abduction of children, the use of sex slaves and child soldiers, and its brutal violence, including cutting off the limbs of its victims.
Angry at the abduction of his loved one, Rinaldo enters the boat, which immediately sails off.
