List of 35 countries where Americans risk being kidnapped

We should all have GPS trackers implanted before travelling abroad.

I have no interest in visiting any of these countries. Why go to s--t holes when you can just go to ghetto in US?

Shitehole countries. Every one of them.

Why would anyone want to go to those places?

Stay away wrote:

Shitehole countries. Every one of them.

Why would anyone want to go to those places?

Did you see Ethiopia and Kenya there? There have been lots of Americans who have traveled to those countries to train with athletes there. People should be more wary.

Kenya believe it?

Also...Trinidad and Tobago? That one is surprising to me. I know someone who lives there and loves it.

General Tso wrote:

Kenya believe it?

Puns...the lowest form of humor.

List of countries I'm going visit. YOLO

I was in Bangladesh (for my work) last week and will be in Turkey next month (for my partner's work). I'm a little surprised not to see Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand on the list (we were there in February). I didn't get kidnapped, but then again I'm not American... Some of the countries on that list (maybe most of them), I would not choose to visit willingly...

Traveled through multiple of those countries alone as a kid. You will be fine. They are not that bad.

Travelling ex-pat wrote:

I was in Bangladesh (for my work) last week and will be in Turkey next month (for my partner's work). I'm a little surprised not to see Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand on the list (we were there in February). I didn't get kidnapped, but then again I'm not American... Some of the countries on that list (maybe most of them), I would not choose to visit willingly...

I've lived for too many years overseas and of course have traveled to many of these countries listed. Based primarily in Thailand for 30+ years I have never felt threatened. However, I would be a little apprehensive travelling in the four provinces of the deep south at times. In 1999 I did do a solo bicycle tour from Surat Thani to the Malaysian border and then back up the western part of the country through Trang and Krabi before going on to Phuket. I have many expat friends of various nationalities that live in Malaysia. They love it! The only time I feel apprehensive about my safety is...…….in the USA!

The list of countries all include places this terrorist country either bombed, invaded, sanctioned, bullied, or all of the aforementioned and then some. This place can eat my crap tunnel.

Eh, I've been to four of those places in the last 1.5 years. No problems.

Americans live in fear.

I’m going to Iten over the summer for a couple weeks...should I be worried?

I’m not a troll, now I’m just genuinely curious and a bit apprehensive

Thanks!

List looks familiar wrote:

The list of countries all include places this terrorist country either bombed, invaded, sanctioned, bullied, or all of the aforementioned and then some.

The USA should be #1 on that list.

I have only been to six of those countries but travel to two of them in SE Asua frequently. I always felt much more at risk driving through West Oakland on my way to work than anyplace I've been to overseas.

The real risk in most of those countries is not kidnapping but motor vehicle accidents. Bad roads, poorly maintained vehicles, trucks, motorbikes, sidecars, pedestrians all competing for space and it's everyone for themselves.

You know where more Americans are kidnapped than anywhere else? America.

Flagpole wrote:

Ukraine (in Russian-controlled eastern Ukraine)

Donbass is controlled by Russian-speaking Ukrainians, you ignorant snob.

burning rabbit man wrote:

The real risk in most of those countries is not kidnapping but motor vehicle accidents. Bad roads, poorly maintained vehicles, trucks, motorbikes, sidecars, pedestrians all competing for space and it's everyone for themselves.

Thailand is something like #1 in the world for road accidents. Not so much in Bangkok, cause all the cars are stuck in traffic so they barely move, but mostly in the provinces.