Muslim envoys off to Baghdad in bid to free British hostage
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Britain's leading Muslim organisation dispatched two envoys to Iraq, hoping to help secure the release of a British engineer taken hostage by Muslim extremists eight days ago.
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BASRA, Oct 27: Hundreds of British soldiers left southern Iraq on a risky mission closer to Baghdad on Wednesday to free up US forces for a possible assault on Fallujah , as Tokyo stood firm after militants threatened to behead a Japanese hostage.
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The Foreign Office has appealed on Al Arabiya television for any information from Iraqis on Kenneth Bigley, a British engineer taken hostage with two Americans last week.
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The British Embassy in Baghdad has distributed 50,000 leaflets carrying a message from the family of a Briton kidnapped in Iraq that pleas with residents to help find the man, the Foreign Office said Friday.
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Britain&#39;s ambassador to Iraq has made a televised appeal to Iraqis for help in finding the body of engineer Kenneth Bigley, beheaded by his kidnappers this month.
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LIVERPOOL, England : Britain&#39;s leading Muslim organisation dispatched two envoys to Iraq, hoping to help secure the release of a British engineer taken hostage by extremists eight days ago.
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AN Iraqi cleric has said he met British hostage Ken Bigley, who is being held in Baghdad.
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An Italian envoy has flown to the Middle East to seek help in securing the release of two female aid workers held hostage in Iraq.
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Two members of the Muslim Council of Britain are in Iraq planning to meet Muslim leaders in Baghdad in an attempt to seek the release of the British hostage Ken Bigley.
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The government appealed for the release of a Briton held hostage in Iraq in a message aired on Arabic satellite television channels.
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Six Egyptians and four Iraqis working for the country's mobile phone company are the latest kidnapped, authorities say, and Muslim leaders in Britain announce plans to send negotiators to Baghdad to try to win the release of Kenneth Bigley. More than 140 foreigners have been taken in Iraq and 26 killed. Meanwhile, insurgents fire a rocket on a Baghdad street, ...
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Al Qaeda-linked militants in Iraq  beheaded a British hostage despite last-ditch secret appeals  from the government in London, Britain said on Friday.
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A two-man delegation from Britain&#39;s biggest Muslim group arrived in Iraq yesterday on a quest to free British hostage Kenneth Bigley, seized by Islamic militants Sept.
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A two-man delegation from Britain's biggest Muslim group arrived in Iraq on Saturday on a quest to free British hostage Kenneth Bigley, seized by Islamic militants nine days ago and threatened with death.
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Prominent British Muslims have arrived in Baghdad to plead for the release of 62-year-old engineer Kenneth Bigley, seized by Islamist militants 10 days ago, amid fears that he could soon be executed.
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LONDON - The British government and the brother of a British hostage have taken to Arab-language airwaves in an attempt to have him released from his captors in Iraq.
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A delegation of senior British Muslims will fly to Baghdad this weekend to meet Sunni clerics with links to Iraqi militants to plead for the life of the British hostage Kenneth Bigley.