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Severed Digits Actually Give Hope to Kin

Thursday, March 13, 2008 11:44:00 PM
By ELIZABETH DUNBAR

A man who identified himself as  kidnapped contractor Paul Johnson Reuben from Buffalo Minnesota, is seen in this image taken from  video made available to the Associated Press on Wednesday Jan. 3, 2007. Severed fingers of five Western contractors including Reuben, were sent to the U.S. military in Iraq, giving the men's relatives hope that they are still alive, a brother of one of the missing men said. The men were abducted in two separate incidents that occurred a month and a half apart more than two years ago, a U.S. government official said Thursday, March 13, 2008, in Washington.(AP Photo/Via AP Television) MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The image turns Patrick Reuben's stomach: someone cutting off his twin brother's finger and putting it in a package with other severed digits.

Yet the grim news this week that captors had sent the fingers to U.S. officials has renewed a sense of hope for relatives of Paul Reuben and four other security workers who were kidnapped in Iraq more than a year ago.

"It shows that they've been alive recently," Reuben said Thursday.


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