29941: (news) Chamberlain: Haiti-American Kidnapped (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Greg Chamberlain <GregChamberlain@compuserve.com>

   PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Armed kidnappers seized an American
missionary as he left his church near Haiti's capital and have demanded a
ransom for his release, U.N. police said Monday.
   Nathan Jean-Bieubonne, a U.S. citizen of Haitian descent, was snatched
Sunday afternoon as he and three others drove home from church in
Croix-de-Bouquets, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, U.N. police spokesman Fred
Blaise said.
   The kidnappers surrounded Jean-Bieubonne's all-terrain vehicle and
forced him out at gunpoint while leaving the other three passengers, Blaise
said.
   "The men who kidnapped him are in touch with the family to demand the
ransom," Blaise said, declining to discuss the amount.
   Blaise said a U.N. anti-kidnapping task force was working with Haitian
police to recover Jean-Bieubonne, whose hometown in the U.S. and church
denomination were not immediately available.