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The Canadian Journalism Foundation event "News Blackouts Save Lives" featured UN ambassador Robert Fowler, Toronto Star publisher John Cruickshank, Globe and Mail foreign editor Stephen Northfield, CTV News executive Robert Hurst on the discussion of news blackouts in kidnapping cases. Moderator Hugh Winsor reviews coverage of Robert Fowler's mission and kidnapping, which Fowler claims threatened his safety.
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News BlackoutsSave Lives
TWO CANADIAN DIPLOMATS MISSING IN NIGER (launch video)
December 15, 2008Roger Smith, CTV National News
2 CANADIANS, INCLUDING DIPLOMAT, REPORTED MISSING IN NIGER (launch video)
December 15, 2008Rosemary Barton, CBC News, The National
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MISSING IN NIGER: THE VICTIM: TEFLON MAN TO HIS ADMIRERS, VOLVO MAN TO HIS CRITICS
ENVOY TRANSLATED TALK INTO ACTION FROM AFRICA TO NEW YORK
December 17, 2008John Allemang, Globe & Mail
When he journeyed to Niger as a UN envoy, Robert Fowler brought his career full circle—a career that began in 1964 teaching English at the National University of Rwanda and included a stint as a deputy minister leading the resistance against a public inquiry into the misbehaviour of Canadian troops in Somalia.
Hard-heated, opinionated, ruthless and idealistic by turns, Mr. Fowler….
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FEW CLUES SURROUNDING DIPLOMATS’ DISAPPEARANCE IN NIGER
December 17, 2008Steven Edwards, Canwest News Service
UNITED NATIONS -- Suspects holding veteran Canadian diplomat Robert Fowler and his aide were feared Tuesday to be scanning world reports about the pair to assess how "valuable" they might be.
One insider speculated the kidnappers -- depending on their identity and their goals -- may feel they have hit a "jackpot" given some of the publicly available accounts of Fowler's career.
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NIGER PRESIDENT POINTS FINGER AT TERRORISTS FOR TWO MISSING CANADIANS
January 13, 2009Steven Edwards, Canwest News Service
UNITED NATIONS -- Niger President Mamadou Tandja is blaming "terrorist groups" for the disappearance of two Canadian diplomats on a United Nations mission in his country.
His comments Tuesday, his first public statement on the mystery, came just days after Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon refused to rule out the possibility of Niger government involvement in what authorities there are treating as a kidnap case.
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THE DESOLATE TRAIL WHERE TWO DIPLOMATS VANISHED
January 24, 2009Geoffrey York, Globe & Mail
KARMA, NIGER -- The tale of the vanished Canadians has all the elements of a Graham Greene thriller: the secretive diplomats who concealed their true mission, their mysterious disappearance in an obscure African country, the intricate games of the rebels and the government and the foreign investigators who are struggling to understand it all.
The enigma of the Fowler case begins with Mr. Fowler himself and his hush-hush mission to Niger, which he and the UN decided to keep secret. His behaviour in Niger was so unusual that the Niger government later insinuated that he could have been the agent of his own disappearance.
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AL-QAEDA SETS TERMS OF RELEASE
February 21, 2009Agence France-Presse
BAMAKO -- Al-Qaeda's North African branch is demanding the release of two Mauritanian members as one of the conditions for freeing two Canadians and four European tourists it has kidnapped, a Mali source said yesterday.
"One of the conditions set by al-Qaeda to free the hostages is the release of two Mauritanian members of the group," the source said.
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ALGERIA DENIES FRANCE, UK RIGHT TO USE AIRSPACE FOR ANTI-TERRORIST CRACKDOWN
February 28, 2009Agence France-Presse
Sources: Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) 2:01 PM: Algeria announced it would not allow France and Britain use of its airspace to conduct a crackdown on Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb militants accused of kidnapping four European tourists and two Canadian diplomats. Algerian Minister of Interior Yazid Zerhouni told a press conference here that the two European countries requested the use of Algerian airspace as well as the country's bordering regions between Mali and Niger to chase Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and free the captives.
