Kidnap threats: dilemma that faces countries and firms
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1309801,00.html
Rory McCarthy in Baghdad
Wednesday September 22, 2004
The Guardian
A Turkish construction firm became the latest company to halt
operations in Iraq yesterday in order to win the release of 10 of its
staff held hostage by militants.
Britain has refused to make concessions to the militants holding the
British contractor Kenneth Bigley captive in Iraq, as did the US
before Eugene Armstrong and Jack Hensley were killed by their captors.
But many other countries and companies have given in to kidnappers'
demands in an attempt to free hostages.
Rory McCarthy
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