-Caveat Lector- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Amelia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 11:24 PM Subject: Police say Japanese student abduction cases linked > Police say Japanese student abduction cases linked > > By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS > The Associated Press > 11/16/00 7:51 PM > SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- The abduction of five female Japanese college > students in separate incidents are linked but the motive remains unknown, > police said Thursday. > > Two women were abducted Oct. 28 and three others on Nov. 11. All were > waiting for buses. The five described similar abductors and said they had > been taken in a red station wagon, police spokesman Dick Cottam said. > > All escaped or were eventually released. > > "There are certainly a number of things that would appear to be similar," > Cottam said. > > In the first case, two students at Eastern Washington University were > abducted by a man and a woman and taken to a dead-end road, where one of the > students was shocked with a stun gun. Both women escaped. > > Last Saturday, three students at Mukogawa Fort Wright Institute, a branch of > a Japanese university, were offered a ride by a woman who drove them to a > dirt lane. They were met by two men who handcuffed them. > > One student escaped, while the others were blindfolded and driven to a house > where they were held for about eight hours and then released, police said. > They did not provide details. > > The FBI was investigating the possibility that two of the students were > taken across the state line to Idaho. > > More than 1,000 foreign students are enrolled at Spokane-area colleges. > Police have said language barriers are slowing the investigation. > > Mukogawa Fort Wright is a branch of the Mukogawa Women's University of Kobe, > Japan. The university set up a program in which about 200 students spend a > quarter immersing themselves in the English language and U.S. customs. The > university chose Spokane in part because of a low crime rate. > > > Copyright 2000 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not > be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.Chat Personal > Portfolio > Wall Street Wire > Birmingham > Gulf Shores > Huntsville > Mobile > Montgomery > Tuscaloosa > Regional radar > Beach Report > Hurricanes > > <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
