Airports and other border points have been notified not to accept these cancelled passports.

He is being asked to go on leave until the court case is over. He's not being fired, just suspended.

They were not being allowed to spend the normal 21 days to let the concrete set. It was taking much less before they were building another layer.

They were crossing British Columbia-Idaho border, and they handed in their passports and they were told they would have to come inside. I don't think he'd been worrying about it, because he'd been in the states hundreds of times since he deserted. I don't think he lived his life that way.

The reasons are confidential and are best known to the minister,

We plead with the kidnappers to release the men so that they may be reunited with their families.