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".
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
"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 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.
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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Today he had a feeling that the Nethers might kidnap Suzanne Bledsoe, the new girl in homeroom.
The government has had some success in dismantling some of the prominent kidnap gangs, but smaller, amateurish outfits have proliferated.
He said that despite starring in big budget movies like Clash of the Titans, Arterton "came into her own" in the low-budget kidnap thriller The Disappearance of Alice Creed.
Venclovas was jailed for a minimum of 20 years at the Old Bailey in November for the murder and kidnap of his ex-wife, who moved to Cambridgeshire to escape her "obsessed" and "jealous" ex.
Before the trial, the judge cited marital privilege and other laws and ruled the prosecution couldn't ask Ms. Mangan-Valle if she thought Mr. Valle really planned to carry out the plot to kidnap and murder her.
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Officer Gilberto Valle, 28 years old, who has been suspended from the police force, has pleaded not guilty to a count of conspiracy to kidnap in the case in Manhattan federal court.
Joseph Romano was one of 23 Americans tried and sentenced by Italian courts for kidnap over the CIA-led operation to abduct a cleric known as Abu Omar.
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The couple - who were based in Tunbridge Wells at the time of their kidnap, but now live in Devon - were held captive for 13 months.
It has punished 54 members of the old police force, including three anti-kidnap officers, for complicity with the criminals they were supposed to catch.
She told the jurors that there was no attempt to kidnap anyone and Mr. Valle never met any of the other supposed co-conspirators, or spoke on the phone with them.
Bellfield, 42, denies murdering her, and also denies attempting to kidnap another girl the day before.
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