Kidnappers threaten to slay hostages in Iraq; bombing kills 19
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Kidnappers with links to al-Qaida threatened in a videotape Saturday to slit the throats of two Americans and a British hostage unless authorities released female prisoners from two US-run prisons in Iraq.
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Militants piled more pressure on Washington&#39;s military allies in Iraq on Thursday, seizing a Polish woman and holding a Japanese man under threat of death.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Militants threatened to decapitate two Americans and a Briton being held hostage unless their demands were met within 48 hours, and in northern Iraq a car bomb killed at least 21 people and wounded 67 on Saturday.    The threat came in a video purportedly from a militant group linked to al-Qaida that showed Americans Jack Hensley and Eugene Armstrong and Briton Kenneth Bigley, the first word of their fate since the three construction workers were abducted from their Baghdad office two days ago...
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A deadline set by militants who have  threatened to behead two Americans and a Briton seized in Iraq  was due to expire Monday, and more than two dozen other  hostages were also facing death unless rebel demands were met.
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BAGHDAD, March 11 Iraqi militants holding two German hostages posted a video on the Internet threatening to kill them if Germany doesn't withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.Comment
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Militants threaten to execute three Western hostages unless all female Iraqi prisoners are set free.
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BAGHDAD -- An insurgent group that has claimed responsibility for a series of hostage-takings threatened yesterday to execute two Americans and a Briton who were kidnapped Thursday unless the United States frees female Iraqi prisoners, the Al-Jazeera satellite channel reported.
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Al Qaeda-linked militants said they  killed a second American hostage on Tuesday and threatened to  kill a Briton unless women prisoners in Iraq were freed.
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A militant group kidnapping three family members of Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi threatened on Wednesday to kill them if Allawi doesn&#39;t order a withdrawal from the besieged Fallujah.
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Militants beheaded an American in Iraq  and said two fellow civilian hostages would meet the same fate  within 24 hours if Washington failed to accept their demands.
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An Iraqi militant group has threatened to  behead a Turkish hostage within three days unless the United  States releases all Iraqi prisoners and Turkish nationals leave  Iraq, Al Arabiya television said on Monday.
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A deadline set by militants who have  threatened to kill two Americans and a Briton seized in Iraq  was due to expire Monday, and more than two dozen other  hostages were also facing death unless rebel demands were met.
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BAGHDAD, 19 September 2004 - Kidnappers of two Americans and a Briton yesterday threatened to behead them unless Iraqi women held at two American-controlled detention facilities were freed within 48 hours.
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Iraqi militants claimed in a Web statement Tuesday to have taken an American soldier hostage and threatened to behead him in 72 hours unless the Americans release Iraqi prisoners.
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Militants who beheaded an American  hostage in Iraq said they would kill another U.S. captive and a  Briton on Tuesday if their demands were not met.
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Militants piled more pressure on the  United States' military allies in Iraq on Thursday, seizing a  Polish woman and holding a Japanese man under death threat.
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Insurgents threatened to kill two  Americans and a Briton captured in Baghdad and launched a  suicide car bomb attack on Iraqi security forces in the  northern city of Kirkuk on Saturday that killed at least 23  people.