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ensho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-09 12:25 PM
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141 women prisoners and the hostage


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090214/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan_kidnapped_american


Kidnappers threaten American abducted in Pakistan


Kidnappers threatened on Friday to kill an American employee of the United Nations within 72 hours and issued a grainy video of the blindfolded captive saying he was "sick and in trouble." A letter accompanying the video delivered to a Pakistani news agency said the hostage, John Solecki, would be killed unless authorities released 141 women it said were being held in Pakistan.

The video and the demands indicated that Solecki, the head of the U.N. refugee agency in Quetta, a city near the Afghan border, was alive and that his captors wanted to negotiate.

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The kidnappers have identified themselves as the Baluchistan Liberation United Front, suggesting a link to local separatists who have waged a long insurgency against Pakistan's government rather than to the Taliban or al-Qaida, which are fighting U.S. forces in Afghanistan.

Still, the death threat heightened fears for Solecki's safety, coming just a week after Taliban militants apparently beheaded a Polish geologist abducted in another border area of Pakistan after the government failed to respond to demands for a prisoner release.

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The commander of a government paramilitary unit in Quetta dismissed the claim of female prisoners as fiction.

"Who are these 141 women? Who knows who they are? This is just attention-seeking. This is just terrorism," Maj. Gen. Salim Nawaz told the Aaj television network.
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do these women exist or not? will the american be killed for fantasy women, or do they exist.
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