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The U.S. discovered that in 2003, when a team of almost two dozen agents who had abducted an Egyptian cleric in Italy for secret interrogation was outed by analysis of their local cellphone records.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

Maddox represented Tawana Brawley, a Black teenager who claimed that a group of white men had abducted and raped her in 1987.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 25, 2023

Her father, Anthony, told Dateline NBC in May he believed someone had abducted his daughter.

From Fox News • Aug. 28, 2021

Leven Rambin plays Kick Lannigan, whom Booth rescued as a little girl from the man who had abducted her years earlier.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2019

I wished I knew how to make Diego believe me; I wished the aliens had abducted him, too, so we could have watched the stars together.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson