Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: Kim Sun-il, Nick Berg, Jill Carroll, Margaret Hassan, Kenneth Bigley, Norman Kember, James Loney, Giuliana Sgrena, Douglas Wood, Ahmed Kousay Altaie, Susanne Osthoff, Tom Fox, Stephen Farrell, Fabrizio Quattrocchi, James Brandon, Shosei Koda, Harmeet Singh Sooden, Roy Hallums, Akihiko Saito, Enzo Baldoni, Ronald Alan Schulz, Ihab el-Sherif, Hostage Working Group, Jack Hensley, Sinan Krause, Kirk von Ackermann, Paul Taggart, Rory Carroll, Fairuz Yamulky, Rifat Mohammed Rifat, Marie Jeanne Ion, Florence Aubenas, Christian Chesnot, Issa Salomi, Georges Malbrunot, Fadi Ihsan Fadel, Murat Yuce, Ulf Hjertstrom. Excerpt: Beginning in April 2004, members of the Iraqi insurgency began taking foreign civilian hostages in Iraq. Since then, they have kidnapped more than 200 foreigners and thousands of Iraqis; among them, dozens of foreign hostages have been killed. Nepal (with 12) and the United States (with 11) rank the highest of hostages killed in Iraq. China ranks the highest (with 15) of hostages freed in Iraq followed by Pakistan (with 13) and Egypt (with 10). There are many motives behind these kidnappings. They include: In 2004, executions of captives were often filmed, and many were beheaded. However, the number of the recorded killings decreased significantly. Many hostages remain missing with no clue as to their whereabouts. The United States Department of State Hostage Working Group was organized by the U.S. Embassy, Baghdad, in the summer of 2004 to monitor foreign hostages in Iraq. The following is a list of known civilian foreign hostages in Iraq. Jill Carroll (born October 6, 1977) is an American former journalist (now working as a firefighter) who was kidnapped and ultimately released in Iraq. Carroll was a reporter for the Christian Science Monitor at the time of her kidnapping. After finishing a...

'It Was A Bizarre Situation. The Negotiators Were In Position In Iraq. The Kidnappers And The Kidnapped Were In Iraq. At The Crucial Moment, The Transport Company In Kuwait Expressed Reservations About The Ransom.' In July 2004, A Convoy Of Kgl Trucks Drove Into Iraq From Kuwait Carrying Electronic Equipment For The American Occupiers, When The Worst Happened Three Indian Drivers, Three Kenyans And An Egyptian Were Ambushed, Detained By Unknown Iraqi Dissidents And Accused Of Collaborating With The Americans. A Deadline Was Set For Their Execution. The Countdown Had Begun. The Abduction Drama That Ensued Had All The Ingredients Of A Thriller: Nail-Biting Suspense, High Profile Media Coverage, International Outrage At The Plight Of These Humble Workers, And Political Tightrope-Walking. This Gripping Behind-The-Scenes Narration Recounts What Really Happened In Baghdad When A Team Of Negotiators Was Sent There And Entered Into Secret Talks Through An Intermediary Whose Very Existence Was Not In Public Domain. Anatomy Of An Abduction Reveals For The First Time The Indian Crisis Management Team'S Handling Of The Situation Over Forty-Four Days In Occupied, Lawless Iraq. The Book Gives An Insight Into The Pressures That Governments Have To Face As More And More Innocent People Become Pawns In Global Chess Games.

A rare and powerful story of hope, love, survival,and the struggle to bring back alive a hostage in Iraq Micah Garen and Marie-Hélène Carleton were journalists and filmmakers working in Iraq on a documentary about the looting of the country's legendary archaeological sites, with their Iraqi translator Amir Doshi. In the late summer of 2004, they began to wrap up their work, and Marie-Hélène returned home while Micah remained for a final two weeks of filming. As Micah and Amir were filming in a Nasiriyah market, something went horribly wrong: Micah, who wore a bushy mustache and was dressed in Iraqi clothing, was unmasked as a foreigner and kidnapped by militants in southern Iraq. Home in New York, Marie-Hélène awoke to a gut-wrenching phone call from Micah's mother with word of his abduction. She promised Micah's mother the impossible--that together they would bring Micah back alive. American Hostage is the remarkable memoir of Micah Garen's harrowing abduction and survival in captivity, as well as the heroic and successful struggle of Marie-Hélène; Micah's sister, Eva; along with family and friends to win Micah's and Amir's release from their captors. The world watched and waited as Micah's drama unfolded, but the authors, now safely home and engaged to be married, detail the dramatic untold story. After learning of Micah's abduction, Marie-Hélène took a risky and unusual step: instead of relying on the authorities to rescue Micah, she used her recent experience in Iraq to construct a massive grassroots effort to reach out to Micah's captors and plead for his release. As fighting between Coalition forces and the Mahdi Army raged in Najaf, Micah and Amir became pawns in a terrible political game. The kidnappers released a video threatening to kill Micah unless the United States withdrew from Najaf within forty-eight hours. In response, Marie-Hélène's and Micah's families redoubled their efforts, eventually sending a representative to Nasiriyah to lobby for Micah. While Marie-Hélène worked on his release, Micah, imprisoned alongside Amir under armed guard deep in the marshes of southern Iraq, lived the nightmare of a hostagehaunted by the alternating impulses of hope and despair, his desire for survival and plans of escape. His experience reveals a great deal about the lives and minds of militants in southern Iraq. American Hostage is an engrossing and rare story of how hope, love, and communal effort can overcome war, distance, and cultural differences in Iraq.

Since the cessation of major combat operations in Iraq, approximately 120 people - either contract workers or private soldiers - have been abducted, with one-third being executed. The largest contingent of these workers has been provided by the Philippines. Through a specific, though not exclusive, focus on the Philippines connection, this book considers the myriad ways in which transnational labour migration intersects with the occupation of Iraq. Also examining the role of the USA in the Middle East, the book places the war on terror within the practices of neoliberalism, but also links this with migration issues and argues that it is all part of a larger 'business' of conflict.

Dr. Nabil Seyam grew up in a poor Palestinian home in Kuwait, dreaming one day of well. After graduating from Wichita State University, where he married his first wife, Carrie, the two moved back to Kuwait to start a family. at an American school. his job. He and his family went into survival mode, selling eggs outside mosques and driving as far as Basra, Iraq, to sell electronics. His family, being Palestinian, passed through the checkpoints the Iraqis had set up across Kuwait. Seyam, being a Palestinian-American, knew he was at risk. Other Americans were being detained. Some were arrested and taken to strategic locations as human shields. arrested, beaten, and bused to Baghdad, where he was among a group of 25 captives. headquarters for operations. International pressure helped free Seyam, but the experience left him nearly penniless and jobless. The captivity kept him from seeing the birth of his third child, who was with Carrie in Wichita. and his family bought groceries with food stamps. He got odd jobs at temp agencies. He fought to get his life back. company, overseeing many plants. He lives in an upscale neighborhood on a golf course. But his new life is more than just a corporate success story.

With Canadians Jim Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden and American Tom Fox, Norman Kember spent four months imprisoned in a small room in Baghdad. The team had gone to Iraq as Christian Peacemakers, determined to work for peace in a war-torn country. In this gripping book, Norman Kember describes his long experiences with the peace movement, and how he slowly came to the view that he should go with other peace advocates to Iraq. He describes in detail his team's four-month ordeal, during which they were imprisoned in a small room and chained together until the fateful day when American Tom Fox was led away by his captors. Later, they learned that he had been killed. Rescued by British forces after a successful international police effort to discover the hideout, Kember describes the conflicts he and his fellow activists have faced since their return over their opposition to military force and their reluctance to testify at the trials of the men accused of their kidnapping. This book offers a startling new perspective on the war in Iraq and its many opponents.