An American Hostage In Iraq
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American Hostage
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Author : Micah Garen
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2005-10-11
American Hostage written by Micah Garen and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-11 with History categories.
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.
An American Hostage In Iraq
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Author : Nabil Seyam
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004-09
An American Hostage In Iraq written by Nabil Seyam and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
Captivity
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Author : James Loney
language : en
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Release Date : 2011-04-19
Captivity written by James Loney and has been published by Knopf Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The powerful account of the remarkable peace activist kidnapped while leading a peace delegation and held for ransom by Iraqi insurgents until his paradoxical release by a crack unit of special forces commandos. In November 2005, James Loney and three other men — Canadian Harmeet Singh Sooden, British citizen Norman Kember and American Tom Fox — were taken hostage at gunpoint. The men were with Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT), an organization that places teams trained in non-violent intervention into lethal conflict zones. The then unknown Swords of Righteousness Brigade released videos of the men, resulting in what is likely the most publicized kidnapping of the Iraq War. Tom Fox was murdered and dumped on a Baghdad street. The surviving men were held for 118 days before being rescued by Task Force Black, an elite counter-kidnap unit led by the British SAS. Captivity is the story of what Jim described upon his return to Toronto and reunion with his partner Dan Hunt as "a terrifying, profound, transformative and excruciatingly boring experience." It presents an affecting portrait of how Jim came to be a pacifist and chronicles his work in Iraq before the kidnapping. It brings the reader immediately into the terror and banality, the frictions, the moral dilemmas of their captivity, their search to find their captors' humanity, and the imperative need to conceal Jim's sexual identity. It examines the paradoxes we face when our most cherished principles are tested in extraordinary circumstances and explores the universal truths contained in every captivity experience. At its heart, the book is a hope-filled plea for peace, human solidarity and forgiveness. From James Loney: Why I Wrote This Book I often wondered, during those excruciating days of handcuffs and chains, fear and boredom without end, would I ever get to tell anyone about the strange and bizarre things that happened during our captivity? Being transported in the trunk of a car. Sleeping with my left and right hands handcuffed to the person beside me. Explaining to the captors how to use “men’s gel.” Picking open our handcuffs after watching a Hollywood movie. It is a paradox. I went to Iraq as a pacifi st on a mission of peace and was kidnapped, threatened with death and held hostage with three other men until we were rescued in a military operation. It is an extraordinary privilege to be able to tell the story of this paradox, to explain why I remain committed to the principles of nonviolence despite the fact a member of our group was murdered and our freedom was secured by armed force. The crucible of captivity was a kind of school in which I was able to see the innermost workings of the universe, how we are all connected, how our liberation is inextricably tied together. I want to share this story in the hope of contributing to the emergence of a world without war, the single greatest challenge of the 21st century. Everything depends on this, for without peace nothing else is possible.
Anatomy Of An Abduction
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Author : V Sudarshan
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2008-01-16
Anatomy Of An Abduction written by V Sudarshan and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-16 with Literary Collections categories.
‘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 eledronic 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 abdudion drama that ensued had all the ingredients of a thriller: nail-biting suspense, high profile media coverage, intemational 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.
Foreign Hostages In Iraq
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Author : Source Wikipedia
language : en
Publisher: University-Press.org
Release Date : 2013-09
Foreign Hostages In Iraq written by Source Wikipedia and has been published by University-Press.org this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with categories.
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...
Hostage In Iraq
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Author : Norman Kember
language : en
Publisher: Lorimer
Release Date : 2007-11-15
Hostage In Iraq written by Norman Kember and has been published by Lorimer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
444 Days
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Author : Sidney C. Moody
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
444 Days written by Sidney C. Moody and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Hostage negotiations categories.
The dramatic and historic events of the seizure, detention and ultimate release of the 52 American hostages of Iran, told chronologically as the weeks and months passed.
Into The Lions Den
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Author : Daniel Patrick O'Shea
language : en
Publisher: Vindicta Publishing
Release Date : 2023-10-17
Into The Lions Den written by Daniel Patrick O'Shea and has been published by Vindicta Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-17 with categories.
An insider's look into nefarious world of hostage taking, where the traditional criminal industry of kidnap and ransom became kidnap and kill. Beheadings replaced proof of life videos as terrorism's latest tactic embodied the new face of post 9/11 Al Qaeda horror. When two Bulgarian truck drivers were kidnapped in June 2004, President Bush assured the President of Bulgaria that he would bring the full might of the United States to bear to secure their release. This "full might" manifested itself in the form of an intense, highly trained Navy SEAL, recently assigned to the U.S. Ambassador's staff. Into the Lion's Den is his story of frustration and fear, terror and triumph in the murky world of kidnapping, ransom and murder. No one understood the problem, the operating environment or obstacles to overcome when a kidnapping occurred in the most dangerous kidnapping environment in the world better than Dan O'Shea. Widespread hostage-taking incidents undermined every goal the US strived to complete in the post-Saddam era, becoming a metaphor for our failure to bring security, stability and governance to Iraq.
The Iraqi Invasion Of Kuwait
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Author : Richard P. Stevens
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
The Iraqi Invasion Of Kuwait written by Richard P. Stevens and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Hostages categories.
October Surprise
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Author : Gary Sick
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 1991
October Surprise written by Gary Sick and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Describes how the Reagan-Bush campaign made a secret deal with Iran to delay the release of the American hostages until after the 1980 election.