Taliban demand $375,000 USD to release Canadian Muslim woman

Taliban insurgents active in Pakistan’s tribal region have offered to free a Canadian woman held since November in return for a $375,000 USD ransom. Gul Bahadur, the Taliban head in the volatile North Waziristan region, is alleged to be responsible for the kidnapping of Beverly Giesbrecht, a West Vancouver woman who was in the area…

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Video emerges of abducted British Columbia journalist

Beverly Giesbrecht, who adopted the name Khadija Abdul Qahaar when she converted to Islam in 2002, was on a freelance assignment for the Al-Jazeera network when she disappeared Nov. 11, 2008 in northern Pakistan. A videotaped message has emerged from a Vancouver journalist who was abducted last year. She says she was kidnapped by the…

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