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The BBC’s Ritula Shah probes the personal stories behind two high-profile kidnappings. She reunites the people intimately involved in these hostage negotiations, and gets the inside story on what it's really liked to be kidnapped. |
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In November 2005, 74-year-old Christian peace activist Norman Kember was kidnapped in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. He was held hostage for four months. Among the many people who helped secure his release were Maxine Nash, who headed the Christian Peacemaker Team in Baghdad, and Anas Altikriti, the Iraqi-born former president of the Muslim Association of Britain. In this BBC World Service program they talk about their feelings and actions while Kember was being held, and about the horrific death of his fellow hostage, Tom Fox. |
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Dr. Thomas Hargrove, an American agricultural scientist, was kidnapped by the Colombian rebel group, FARC, in September, 2004. He was held for eleven months. His family paid two ransoms for his eventual release. The BBC’s Ritula Shah examines the arguments for and against paying ransom. |
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