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Princeton University Accused of Botching Student Abduction Crisis

‘MIND-BOGGLING’

The Ivy League school has been accused of treating the kidnapping of a student by an armed militia as “a PR problem that needs to be handled.”

Noor Ibrahim
Noor Ibrahim 

Managing Editor

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Princeton student Elizabeth Tsurkov, along with the crest of the university and a map of Iraq, where she was kidnapped this spring.
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty
Noor Ibrahim

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Managing Editor

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