As "extraordinary rendition" entered the popular vocabulary, the US stood accused of kidnapping men as young as 15 and rendering them to countries where interrogation techniques ranged from extracting fingernails to electrocution.
Reports by the UN and independent human-rights groups suggest that the invaders executed hundreds of Yazidi men and kidnapped as many as 2,000 women and children.Any doubt as to the fate of these captives was dispelled by the latest issue of IS's glossy English-language online magazine, Dabiq.
Locked up for more than four months in the same vile cell as the man who kidnapped and beat him as well as a convicted murderer, when the state finally offered him a deal – cop a plea, pay a fine and you're free – Natsvlishvili was so desperate that he jumped at it.
MEXICO CITY — The 18 bodies discovered in a mass grave just outside Acapulco have been identified as those of most of the 20 men who were kidnapped as they arrived last month for a brief vacation at the Pacific beach resort city, Mexican state authorities said Saturday.
"For their sake I realize that I can not return… The men who kidnapped my husband are still there, doing as they please, working for the government.
The men who kidnapped and interrogated us were police.
Since the days when amorous men routinely kidnapped their brides, families in the Caucasus have been characterized by what sociologists politely refer to as "gender asymmetry".
Last month, three men were kidnapped and held for $15,000 ransom.
He has also been identified as the man who kidnapped a US soldier, Bowe Bergdahl, four years ago - the only known American soldier currently held by Afghan insurgents.
A man who was kidnapped as an infant in Queens two decades ago, then raised by his abductors as their son, asked a judge for leniency in sentencing the couple yesterday, saying in a hushed courtroom that he was "losing his parents".
