More hostages taken as US fears grow
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A Briton and two Americans became the latest foreigners to be kidnapped in Iraq yesterday when gunmen burst into their house in central Baghdad and dragged them off into a van.
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The US military said tonight it had captured two senior terrorists linked to Iraqâs most feared Islamic militant group. The arrests came as police uncovered more bodies under the rubble a day after a suicide
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THE KIDNAPPING and murder of foreigners in Iraq is continuing. Many of those kidnapped have been engineers or other support workers for the coalition forces.
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Raids on mosques and the arrests of several hardline Sunni clerics have raised fears the US-led assault on the Sunni insurgent stronghold
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THE threat of execution hung over a Briton and two American hostages last night as their Islamic militant captors&#39; 48-hour deadline for the US-led coalition to free all Iraqi female detainees was due to expire.
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BAGHDAD, 26 December 2004 - The US military said yesterday it has captured two senior aides of Iraqâs most feared militant group as police uncovered more bodies under the rubble a day after a suicide bomber blew up a gas tanker in an upscale Baghdad
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THE Government faced a new hostage crisis last night after a Briton running an aid agency was kidnapped by an unidentified armed group.
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The United States is expanding its two major detention centers in Iraq with the expectation that the new security crackdown in Baghdad will add hundreds and perhaps thousands of prisoners to the 17,000 it  holds,  U.S. military spokesmen said.
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Several Iraqi militant groups have threatened to execute more than 20 hostages, including three Americans and 18 Iraqi soldiers, unless their demands are met before deadlines.
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Kidnappers threatening to execute three UN hostages in Afghanistan accused the United States on Saturday of delaying their release.
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A team of kidnappers grabbed two Americans and a Briton in a dawn raid on their home on a leafy Baghdad street Thursday - a bold abduction that underlines the increasing danger
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Fears were growing for the safety of a British engineer held hostage in Iraq after grisly footage of the execution of a US co-worker also held captive was posted on the Internet.
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A US Embassy spokesman said Tuesday that an American, a Nepalese, a Filipino and an Iraqi remain hostages after a kidnapping raid Monday night in Baghdad.
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Two Americans and a Briton were kidnapped from their residence in the Mansour district of Baghdad by unknown gunmen this morning, the US embassy there said in an e-mailed statement from the Iraqi capital.
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Iraq&#39;s hostage crisis continued Thursday, with one group of insurgents saying it had killed 11 Iraqi national guardsmen, another saying it had kidnapped a Polish worker
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Militants who beheaded an American  hostage in Iraq threatened to kill another U.S. captive and a  Briton on Tuesday, as relatives and diplomats pleaded for their  release.
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A US citizen and five other staff of a Saudi trading firm were kidnapped in Baghdad on Monday, while a deputy governor was shot dead, plunging Iraq deeper into crisis.