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Two teenage twins have been missing from their Southern California home since Sunday, and their parents fear their daughters met someone on the Internet and could be in danger. Mary and Morgan Corrodi, 16, were last seen outside their Malibu home getting into a car occupied by two women. Jack Corrodi said his daughters, who have IQs of 70 and attend special education classes at Malibu High School, recently spent "many hours" on the Internet and received multiple calls from unknown persons. "[A neighbor] saw the girls standing there, just kind of hanging around like they were waiting for somebody,...

Karl Hindle has been working tirelessly for five years and spent more than four hundred thousand dollars investigating his daughter's illegal abduction to the U.S. What he has uncovered is deplorable. The paper trail shows the United States government is in the business of illegal baby snatching and harboring criminals. Emily would not have suffered the loss of her father for the last five years, or the vision in her right eye, if it weren't for the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA.) And people like Barbara Grieg of the U.S. State Department who see it as an excuse for misandry...

Kosovo/Albania: Investigate Postwar Abductions, Transfers to Albania Official Dismissals Premature (New York, May 5, 2008) – Additional information has emerged that bolsters allegations of abductions and cross-border transfers from Kosovo to Albania after the 1998-1999 Kosovo war, Human Rights Watch said today. The Kosovar and Albanian governments should open independent and transparent investigations to help resolve the fate of approximately 400 Serbs who went missing after the war. "Serious and credible allegations have emerged about horrible abuses in Kosovo and Albania after the war," said Fred Abrahams, senior emergencies researcher at Human Rights Watch, who investigated human rights violations in...

Early Elián Gonzalez raid was planned BY WILFREDO CANCIO ISLA Before the forced removal of Elián González from his relatives' home in Little Havana eight years ago, federal agents had another plan to return the child to his father in Cuba. But an order from Washington canceled it at the last minute. According to statements by James Goldman, then head of operations for the U.S. immigration agency in Miami, federal agents had been instructed to seize Elián during a meeting in Miami Beach with his grandmothers at the home of Sister Jeanne O'Laughlin, then-president of Barry University, in January 2000....

ALBANY, N.Y. (WIVB) - - The Albany Police Department has activated the New York State AMBER Alert and is investigating a confirmed child abduction that occurred at 41 North Allen Street , in Albany, NY at about 3:00 PM on 4/7/2008. The CHILD, Jose Estrada is a Hispanic male , approximately 6 years old with brown hair and brown eyes . He is approximately 3 feet 1 inch tall and weighs about 48 pounds. Jose was last seen wearing blue jeans, a mustard colored shirt and/or a plaid button down shirt, an orange jacket with blue sleeves, and black sneakers....

Excerpt - Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan has gone missing before he was due to cross into Afghanistan from Pakistan. Sources have told the BBC that the ambassador, Tariq Azizuddin, was kidnapped in the Khyber tribal agency close to the Afghan border. The Pakistani embassy in Kabul says contact was lost with Mr Azizuddin at around 1045 local time (0645 GMT). Many areas in the border regions between Afghanistan and Pakistan are strongholds of pro-Taleban militants. Dangerous region Mr Azizuddin was going to Kabul from Peshawar by road when he disappeared. The BBC's Alastair Leithead in Afghanistan says that police in...

Austin, TX -- The search is on for four suspects accused of snatching a 5-year-old boy out of his family's car while his mother and sister sat inches away in Northeast Austin about 7:45 a.m. Thursday. Adrian Jaimes has black hair and brown eyes. He is about 4 feet tall and weighs 50 pounds. He was kidnapped from the driveway of his home in the 11800 block of Shropshire Blvd. Adrian was sitting in the car with his mom and his sister, ready to head off to school when he was abducted. Police said two Hispanic men, possibly in their...

BALAD, Iraq, Dec. 27, 2007 – Iraqi police and U.S. special operations forces seized two suspected extremists believed to be complicit in the kidnapping of three U.S. soldiers in early May, U.S. military officials said today. The suspects were detained during Dec. 24-25 operations in Ramadi, officials said. The raids were prompted by intelligence reports linking the two individuals to the May 12 abduction of three U.S. 10th Mountain Division soldiers after an insurgent ambush near Mahmudiyah in which four U.S. soldiers were killed. Reports indicate the two detainees are linked to al Qaeda in Iraq. One of the suspected...

ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT: Portsmouth Police Department at 1-888-562-5887 or Virginia State Police at 1-800-822-4453. MISSING: Matashia L'Faith Holder-Ricks Gender : female Race : black Date of Birth : 11/13/2007 Height : 3 feet 00 inches Weight : 8.1 Lbs Hair: black Eyes: brown Date and Time of Abduction: Dec 19, 2007 07:30 hours Circumstances: Child was last seen at 174 Allard Rd, Portsmouth, Virginia. Child was last seen wearing a leopard shirt, leopard pants, piink fury snow suit. Additional Significant Identifiers or Conditions of Child: She has sinus problems that are causing her to weeze. She is lactos...

Sheriff: Men confess to crime By Debbie Robinson news@joplinglobe.com STELLA, Mo. — Both defendants in the brutal rape and murder of 9-year-old Rowan Ford have confessed to the crime, the Newton County sheriff said Sunday. David Spears, 25, of Stella, and Chris Collings, 32, of Wheaton, are charged with one count each of first-degree murder, forcible rape and statutory rape in the girl’s death. Spears is Rowan’s stepfather. Newton County Sheriff Ken Copeland said investigators allege that Rowan was abducted early Nov. 3 from her home in Stella in Newton County, murdered in Barry County, and her body dumped in...

9-year-old Stella girl missing By Jeff Lehr jlehr@joplinglobe.com STELLA, Mo. — Law officers and volunteers spent several hours Sunday searching in vain for a 9-year-old girl who disappeared from her home in Stella late Friday or early Saturday. Rowan Ford was last seen inside her home at 777 Grove St. about 10:45 p.m. Friday, Newton County Sheriff Ken Copeland said. She is the daughter of Colleen Spears and stepdaughter of David Spears, and is a fourth-grader at Stella Elementary School, Copeland said. Investigators found no signs of a crime scene at the Spears residence, and no charges had been filed...

Zina Linnik was last seen around 9:45 p.m. on July 4, Tacoma police said. Witnesses reported hearing a scream and seeing an Asian male get into an older, gray van and drive away. Linnik is described as a blonde, 4-foot-11-inch-tall Ukrainian girl. She weighs 80 pounds and was reportedly wearing a pink T-shirt, capri pants and red flip-flop sandals at the time of her disappearance.

The three-year-old daughter of a British expatriate worker has been kidnapped by gunmen in the Niger Delta, Nigerian police have said. The child, Margaret Hill, was seized from a car on her way to school in the oil city of Port Harcourt. The kidnapping follows that of five oil workers on Wednesday, the first since the main militant group in the area called off a month-long ceasefire. The UK's Foreign Office called for the "immediate safe release" of the girl. A spokesman said: "We do not know who took her. We are in contact with her parents and are...

Hamas' purported rescue operation today in which kidnapped BBC reporter Alan Johnston was freed from captivity really was a "movie" staged by Hamas to endear itself to the international community and demonstrate it is capable of imposing order in Gaza, a senior Palestinian Authority official charged. "We're watching a movie where the thieves in Gaza fall out and one of them claims to be honest and brave, and the other is the bad guy. This Hamas game fools no one," said Yasser Abed Rabbo, chief aid to PA President and Hamas rival Mahmoud Abbas. Rabbo charged Hamas was in "cahoots"...

AMBER ALERT 06/23/2007 CHLD (2): WHT ML, 10 YRS, 4’8” 80 LBS, BLND HR, BLU EYES; WHT FEM, 8 YRS, 4’4” 60 LBS, BLND HR BLU EYES, SUSP: DARREL STULL, WHT ML, 36 YRS, 5’11” 150 LBS BLND HR, BLU EYES, WEARING BLUE T-SHRT AND BLUE JEANS. IF SEEN CALL 911 The Pennsylvania State Police has issued an Amber Child Abduction Alert on behalf of the Pennsylvania State Police, Corry Station, Crawford County. The Corry Station of the Pennsylvania State Police is searching for two children who were taken on June 22nd, 2007 from 22410 Little Cooley Road, Union City,...

AMBER ALERT 06/18/2007 CHILD: ALYSSA VOLTZ 15 MO. WHT FEMALE, BLONDE HR, BLUE EYES, NO CLOTHING, SUSPECT: ERIC VOLTZ, 26 YR OLD BLK MALE, SHORT BLK HAIR, WEARING WHT SHIRT, WHT SHORTS. VEH: GOLD DODGE NEON PA TAG WR78206. IF SEEN CALL 911 The Pennsylvania State Police has issued an Amber Child Abduction Alert on behalf of the Munhall Police Department, Allegheny County. The Munhall Police Department is searching for Alyssa Voltz, a 15-month-old white female child with blonde hair and blue eyes, possibly clothed in only a diaper. She was reported abducted on June 18th at approximately 4:30 pm...

6/9/2007 3:40:21 PM On Saturday, Palestinian gunmen broke through Israel's heavily fortified Gaza border and battled troops inside Israel for about two hours in a failed attempt to abduct an Israeli soldier. One of the raiders was killed. It was the first cross-border incursion since militants killed two soldiers and abducted a third a year ago. The Israel military said troops shot dead one of the raiders. Palestinians said another three militants escaped back to Gaza unharmed. The Islamic Jihad group said it carried out Saturday's attack, near the Kissufim crossing between Gaza and Israel, along with the Al...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — A $10,000 reward has been offered for information leading to the safe return of 18-year-old Kelsey Smith, who was forced into her car at a Target store on Saturday. "Every indication is, it’s been an abduction," Overland Park Police Chief John Douglas told FOX News on Tuesday. "So far, our best information is coming from the surveillance video." Police viewed the footage Monday. The video shows Smith, of Overland Park, Kan., leaving the store around 7:10 p.m. She had put pac

Excerpt - BAGHDAD, May 29 (Reuters) - Gunmen wearing police uniforms kidnapped at least three Western lecturers and several of their bodyguards from a Finance Ministry building in central Baghdad on Tuesday, a witness told Reuters. Police said the lecturers were German and they were seized from their cars outside the ministry building. The lecturers had been advising ministry personnel on organising electronic contracts, said the witness, who did not want to be identified. The gunmen entered the lecture room led by a man wearing a police major's uniform. "Where are the foreigners, where are the foreigners?", the gunmen shouted,...

Some of England's wealthiest celebs are shelling out a fortune to help fund the search for a 4-year-old British girl who has gone missing in Portugal. This gives new meaning to the term "giving back." Harry Potter authoress J.K. Rowling, Virgin titan Sir Richard Branson and "Idol" judge Simon Cowell have all ponied up to help find Madeleine McCann, who has been missing since May 2. According to the News of the World, Rowling donated in excess of $495,000, while Branson and Cowell chipped in $198,000 and $99,000, respectively. Rowling's fortune has been estimated at $1 billion, Branson's at a...