Mike Thomson travelled to the heart of the kidnap region in northern Sinai to report.
The group was held responsible for the kidnap of more than 30 European tourists in Algeria.
On Monday, police in Venezuela detained five Colombians suspected of involvement in the kidnap of Mr Ramos.
Mr Malik said the kidnap was "humiliating" for Pakistan, and the captors would be made an "example of".
Colonel Ishai Efroni Piece of the, one of the mortars that was shot here when the kidnap took place.
In 1936, Bruno Hauptman was electrocuted in Trenton, New Jersey, for the kidnap and murder of the Lindbergh infant.
"The kidnap ordeal of Belfast man, Stephen McFaul, has ended, " said the taoiseach, or Irish prime minister, Enda Kenny.
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Five men have been charged with the kidnap, gang-rape and murder of the 23-year-old, whose name has not been released.
The extent of insecurity was underlined last week by the kidnap last week of the Venezuelan US major league baseball player Wilson Ramos.
The specialist was probably covered by the kidnap and ransom insurance policy Adobe had taken out to cover the executive and his family.
Now 17 months after the investigation was first launched, Kirklees Council has published a long-awaited report looking at whether the kidnap could have been prevented.
One of those released, Emiliano Astarita, told his father by telephone the kidnap victims had been treated well in captivity, Italy's Ansa news agency reported.
He's such a film buff, that in 1978, Kim Jong-il even ordered the kidnap of South Korean director Shin Sang-ok, and his girlfriend, actress Choi Eun-hee.
This year's festival, held in January, was in doubt after the kidnap of three tourists and the killing of another in Timbuktu, in November last year.
Among the kidnap victims was former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, who was freed in July with three American military contractors and 11 Colombian police and military members.
Even now, the British government has never given an answer to the simple question: Were you involved in the kidnap of me, my wife and my children?
Hughes claimed that Mr Adams had been in charge of the IRA unit responsible for the kidnap and murder of a group of people that became known as 'the Disappeared'.
The release of Shia militants from the kidnap group, which calls itself the Leagues of Righteousness, is being carried out under the banner of that process and of Iraqi national reconciliation.
Belgian child killer Marc Dutroux has gone before a court to ask for early release from a life jail sentence imposed for the kidnap and rape of six girls, and three murders.
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The kidnap trade in Sinai has been described by the United Nations as one of the most unreported humanitarian crises in the world and little seems to be being done to stop it.
But the most popular accused culprit remains the Irish Republican Army (IRA), whom the Aga Khan and his syndicate of owners officially blamed for the kidnap, though authorities have never named a suspect.
The kidnap, besides giving Gazans bombings and power cuts, has undermined the Hamas government, which seems to have little if any control over the kidnappers, even though some are from the Qassam brigades.
He said he was negotiating with the kidnap group in Iraq itself, and talks were continuing with a view to obtaining the release of the remains of the fifth hostage, Alan McMenemy, who he confirmed is dead.
"Although the involvement of others in the kidnap cannot be completely ruled out, there is no objective proof this was the case and no leads could be found, " read the report commissioned last year by the Austrian parliament.
The kidnap of an Israeli soldier near Gaza in June, by militants loyal to Mr Meshal, seemed timed to scupper coalition talks between Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, and Ismail Haniyeh, the Gaza-based prime minister, who after some teetering now seems to have gone firmly over to Mr Meshal's rejectionist camp.
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The Foreign Affairs Select Committee, which has recommended that that the government should review how it handles the kidnap of British nationals abroad, said there was limited guidance on the use of lethal force against pirates trying to ambush vessels, and that ship captains were left in a difficult position trying to decide what action to take.
At the time, he said that his opposition to the proposal to kidnap the imam was overruled.
Brown did not return requests for comment on the circumstances behind the returned kidnap victim or how he obtained the government e-mails.
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Armed gangs patrol the grounds, cut down the trees and hide weapons, stolen cars and the people they kidnap among the sagging bungalows of the old hotel.
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