Kidnapped Britons being held by group backed by Iran - US general
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Five British civilians kidnapped in Baghdad last month are being held by a group trained, funded and armed by Iran, US commander says.
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Britain has assembled a 60-member team of special military forces to rescue five Britons kidnapped in Ethiopia last week, the Daily Mirror reported Monday.Comment
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Gunmen wearing uniforms similar to those of Iraqi security forces have kidnapped an Iranian diplomat, according to Iranian news reports, and Iran says the gunmen "acted under U.S. supervision."
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LONDON -- The government said yesterday it was investigating reports that members of a London-based radical Islamic group have been in contact with militants holding a British hostage in Iraq to urge his release.
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US troops in Iraq say they have arrested a suspected leader of a Shia militia group allegedly backed by Iran.
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BAGHDAD - An Iranian diplomat taken hostage in Iraq last month was released by his captors on Monday but the fate of at least 11 other foreigners, including a Briton threatened with beheading, remained unclear.
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Britain is considering a direct approach to Iran for help in finding five British hostages in Iraq.
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Gunmen in Iraqi police uniforms kidnapped five Britons -- a computer expert and his four bodyguards -- from a finance ministry building in Baghdad on Tuesday, officials said.
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U.S. soldiers arrested members of an Iranian government delegation Tuesday at a hotel in Baghdad and took them to an unidentified location, Iran's official IRNA news agency reported.
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Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said on Wednesday that Shi'ite Mehdi Army militias were most likely to have been behind the kidnapping of five Britons in Baghdad, probably assisted by local police.
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The life of a British hostage is in the balance amid reports that one of two Iraqi women that his Islamic kidnappers have demanded to be released could be freed by the US military.
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A Briton and two other foreigners helping to organise Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election have been kidnapped by a gang of armed men in the capital, prompting a huge
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US teams tried to rescue Briton Ken Bigley and two Americans from their Iraq kidnappers, sources say.
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Three British nationals have been seized by gunmen in Baghdad, the Iraqi interior ministry says.
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A leader of Ansar al-Sunnah, a group linked to al-Qaida in Iraq that has been blamed for kidnappings and beheadings, has been captured by Iraqi and U.S. forces, the prime minister's office said Saturday.
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BAGHDAD -- Iran yesterday accused the United States of responsibility for the abduction of an Iranian diplomat snatched from a Baghdad street on Sunday by men wearing Iraqi Army uniforms.
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Iraqi kidnappers seized two Americans and a Briton from their home and office in Baghdad Thursday, CNN reported. US and British officials in Iraq said they were looking into the report from the Iraqi Ministry of Interior.