Travel advice from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office warns that street crime is high, and that armed robbery, and what it calls "express kidnappings" - short-term abductions to extort money - also take place, and that tourists have been among those targeted; resistance to robbers had resulted in people being shot dead, it added. ❋ Unknown (2011)
A series of child abductions is also plaguing the city, executed by a creepy figure the media refers to as the Mad Hatter, named after his appearance. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Stretching over vast cattle estates at the foothills of the Andes, Barinas is known for two things: as the bastion of the family of President Hugo Chávez and as the setting for a terrifying surge in abductions, making it a contender for Latin America’s most likely place to get kidnapped. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Meanwhile, a Sudan government spokesman referred to the abductions as "piracy," reflecting speculation of a Chinese ransom payment in return for the workers' freedom. ❋ Nicholas Bariyo (2012)
"The abductions are a state-sponsored crime," she says. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Even though the number appears high, the actual number of child abductions, that is those by strangers, non-family members, have seen a slight decrease. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Christ appeared as the apostles were taking Mary's body to the grave carried it with him up to heaven, where it was reunited with her It must be said that Mary's assumption, so sudden and perempbears some resemblance to an abduction, recalling abductions a older traditions than Christianity, when gods and fairies snatched artal beings for their pleasure. ❋ Arensberg, Ann, 1937- (1999)
The Greys assured us that the real purpose of the abductions was for monitoring of our civilization, and when we learned that the abductions were a lot more frequent and insidious than we were led to believe, the government became concerned. ❋ Unknown (1988)
The abductions were the third kidnapping of Europeans in Kenya in less than a month, and in all cases Somali gunmen are suspected. ❋ Mike Pflanz (2011)
Aguirre called the abductions "serious and without precedent in the Western Hemisphere." ❋ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (2010)
Captain Nomana Adonis from Mthontsasa police station, which leads a rescue campaign in villages around the area of Lusikisiki, said the abductions were a new phenomenon. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The abductions are the latest to hit aid agencies working in the region, with French workers taken in Chad this month and Sudan last month. ❋ Unknown (2009)
While part of the Party of God acts like a normal political organization, participating in democratic elections and appointing cabinet ministers, the other part uses less savory tactics, such as abductions near the Israeli border and terrorist attacks, such those committed against Jewish facilities in South America in 2002 and 2004. ❋ GayandRight (2009)
These so-called "abductions" insert something a little more respectful here: how about "temporary assumptions?" are benevolent, and for the purpose of dispensing loving guidance. ❋ Unknown (2007)
These days, there's an international debate over CIA activities such as abductions of terror suspects. ❋ Unknown (2007)
I blame Whitley Strieber, whose once skeptical stance on the UFO phenomenon for example, he once astutely pointed out the tenuous link between UFOs and "abductions," a point largely overlooked by exponents of the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis has degenerated into so much banal, contradictory pomposity. ❋ Mac (2007)
The primary challenge to this mythological approach was the explicitly biological nature of so many encounters -- including, but by no means limited to, the relatively recent epidemic of "abductions," in which witnesses report being kidnapped from workaday surroundings and subjected to novel medical tests. ❋ Mac (2006)
Obviously, I can't prove some of them aren't genuine visits from nonhumans, but I find the venue highly suspect; I think most, if not all, bedroom "abductions" are instigated by little-understood psychological phenomena. ❋ Mac (2006)
