The Missing
Rod Nordland Newsweek
Saturday 11 March 2006
American missionary Tom Fox has been found dead in Iraq. Just how many others are still being held?
Just how many foreigners are being held hostage in Iraq? The numbers are higher than most people realize-partly because victims' relatives and employees don't publicize disappearances for fear of jeopardizing negotiations for their release. NEWSWEEK's calculations, however, show that at least 45 kidnapped foreigners, including 14 Americans, are still missing inside the country.
These are at best minimum figures, compiled by NEWSWEEK from both published accounts and data from U.S. officials in Baghdad, where the State Department has a high-level Hostage Working Group actively investigating the cases of the Americans, and assisting in the inquiries about other missing foreigners. While those kidnapped as far back as October 2003 may well have been killed by now, there's no evidence of that one way or another in most cases. And in many cases, there has been little or no public acknowledgement by either families or kidnappers that the hostages have gone missing. >>>cont
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Saturday 11 March 2006
American missionary Tom Fox has been found dead in Iraq. Just how many others are still being held?
Just how many foreigners are being held hostage in Iraq? The numbers are higher than most people realize-partly because victims' relatives and employees don't publicize disappearances for fear of jeopardizing negotiations for their release. NEWSWEEK's calculations, however, show that at least 45 kidnapped foreigners, including 14 Americans, are still missing inside the country.
These are at best minimum figures, compiled by NEWSWEEK from both published accounts and data from U.S. officials in Baghdad, where the State Department has a high-level Hostage Working Group actively investigating the cases of the Americans, and assisting in the inquiries about other missing foreigners. While those kidnapped as far back as October 2003 may well have been killed by now, there's no evidence of that one way or another in most cases. And in many cases, there has been little or no public acknowledgement by either families or kidnappers that the hostages have gone missing. >>>cont
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