NEW YORK -- Of all the horror, pain, and degradation both physical and mental that Ingrid Betancourt suffered during six and a half years in the Colombian jungle, perhaps nothing felt more dangerous to her than when her captors tried to erase her last bit of identity: her name. They wanted to call her by a number. And she refused, angering her fellow hostages and probably putting all of them at risk. "Ingrid Betancourt," she said when the time came to recite her number.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A militant strapped with more than 100 pounds of explosives and disguised in an army uniform blew himself up in a crowded mess hall Wednesday as brutal attacks across Iraq killed more than 50 people. In a dramatic raid, Iraqi and U.S. forces freed Australian hostage Douglas Wood, held by insurgents for 47 days. The swell in violence - which caused the highest daily death toll in more than three weeks - appeared aimed at derailing stepped-up efforts by Shiite politicians to bring the disaffected Sunni Arab minority into the political process. The two groups are trying to write a groundbreaking constitution and gain necessary approval to allow government-building to move forward.
STOCKTON SPRINGS - Worshippers gave thanks Sunday for the tragedy that was averted when an armed gunman who took 11 Stockton Springs Elementary School fifth-graders hostage Friday was captured without a shot being fired. The congregation of the Stockton Springs Community Church nodded in agreement when the Rev. Arthur Cotton asked them to "praise God for his protection of our kids and teachers this past week at school.
Kidnappers then demand Japanese withdraw or be killed
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Palestinian security officers stormed a building where an Italian hostage was being held Sunday, freeing the man in a shootout with his kidnappers. It was a rare show of force in a wave of kidnappings, shootouts and other mayhem in the Gaza Strip that has embarrassed Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, threatening to undermine his Fatah Party in Jan. 25 legislative elections and boost the Islamic militant group Hamas.
BAGHDAD, Iraq A militant strapped with more than 100 pounds of explosives and disguised in an army uniform blew himself up in a crowded mess hall Wednesday as brutal attacks across Iraq killed more than 50 people. In a dramatic raid, Iraqi and U.S. forces freed Australian hostage Douglas Wood, held by insurgents for 47 days. The swell in violence which caused the highest daily death toll in more than three weeks appeared aimed at derailing stepped-up efforts by Shiite politicians to bring the disaffected Sunni Arab minority into the political process.
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraqi and U.S. forces, acting on a tip, raided a dangerous Sunni neighborhood Wednesday and freed an Australian hostage who was hidden beneath a blanket, officials said. Elsewhere, 33 people died in suicide attacks, including 25 killed when a bomber dressed in Iraqi army uniform blew himself up in a mess hall. Douglas Wood, a 64-year-old engineer who is a longtime resident of Alamo, Calif., said he was "extremely happy and relieved to be free again," according to a message read by Australia's counterterrorism chief Nick Warner.
LONDON - Freed British hostage Norman Kember returned home Saturday after four months in captivity in Iraq and thanked the soldiers who saved him and two other peace activists. Kember, 74, arrived on a commercial flight from Kuwait and was reunited with his wife, Pat, in a terminal in Heathrow Airport. He waved to the waiting TV cameras.
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The U.S. military, acting on a tip, raided an isolated farmhouse outside the capital Wednesday and rescued an American businessman held hostage for 10 months. The kidnappers, who kept their captive bound and gagged, escaped without a gunbattle. The rescue came on a day that saw two deadly bombings around the southern city of Basra, fueling fears the bloody insurgency was taking deeper root outside Sunni-dominated territory. A roadside bomb killed four American security agents. And an Interior Ministry official said 16 people were killed and 21 were injured in a car bombing at a restaurant in a central market.
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