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Published 11/03/2009 by Borneo Bulletin

Kidnapping puts crisis-bound Honduras on edge

A police officer inspects the car of kidnapped businessman Alfredo Jalil. AFP TEGUCIGALPA (AFP) - Assailants kidnapped the father of Honduras' acting defense minister Tuesday in a case that immediately took on political overtones amid a bitter, unresolved political crisis.

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...Mejia de Jalil. "Two subjects on motorcycle accosted (Alfredo Jalil) and his wife, but they let her go and they took him" said Cerrato, adding...

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