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"I kidnapped it on principle," he explains.

In 2010, 51 reporters were kidnapped, it said, up from around 30 the previous two years.

Given the number of times he was kidnapped, it might be natural for Stendal to nurse bitter and resentfulness toward the Farc.

But as the fight evolved, and Iraqis began to be killed and kidnapped, it reminded him too much of the Iraq he left, and so he recently returned to his home in Basra.

If, at this microscopic level of detail, it feels at times like the interview version of a filibuster, or being kidnapped, it is still extraordinary: when you listen to his life's work in detail, his originality comes into focus.

"When a person is kidnapped, it's like they're drowning, so they want to grab on to anything, like religion," said Jaime Salem, who owns the discount store where his son worked.

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Or kidnapping it, as Kim Jong-il did in 1978 when his agents sedated South Korea's leading director Shin Sang-ok and his ex-wife film star Choi Eun-hee.

(Steyerl, for one, joked, "Next time I see another 16mm film projector rattling away in a gallery I will personally kidnap it and take the poor thing to a pensioners home").

It's not always arsonists – in 1976 the goat was ran over by a raggarbil, and in 2010 someone tried and failed to kidnap it using a helicopter.

O'Callaghan says that he was told that the horse was shot within hours of it being kidnapped after it became aggressive and hurt its leg.

I ask about another- its owner was kidnapped, so it closed.

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