Three Westerners abducted in Iraq; 8 U.S. troops die
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Gunmen in police uniforms kidnapped at least three Western lecturers in Baghdad on Tuesday, a witness told Reuters, as eight more U.S. soldiers were reported killed in the deadliest month this year.
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A group linked to Iraq's al Qaeda said   on Monday it had abducted two American soldiers south of   Baghdad, according to a statement posted on the Internet.
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Gunmen abducted three members of Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi&#39;s family from their Baghdad home, his spokesman said Wednesday, and militants said they would be beheaded in two days if the siege of Fallujah was not lifted.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen abducted two Americans and a Briton in a brazen attack Thursday on a house in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood where many embassies and foreign companies are based, the Interior Ministry and witnesses said. It was the latest in a wave of kidnappings of foreigners in Iraq...
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JEDDAH, SAUDI ARABIA - Eight people died, several more were injured and about 18 others were taken hostage Monday when gunmen attacked the US Consulate in the Saudi city of Jeddah.
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The three foreign men kidnapped from their house in central Baghdad on Thursday were two Americans and one Briton, Iraq's Interior Ministry said.
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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.
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Militants kidnapped an American and three other foreigners in a bloody assault on their office in the capital Monday, and gunmen assassinated
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BAGHDAD -- Gunmen stormed the compound of a Saudi company in a fashionable Baghdad neighbourhood yesterday, seizing an American, a Nepalese and four Iraqis after a gun battle in which a guard and one of the assailants were killed, police said.
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BAGHDAD -- Nine US soldiers and Marines were killed in Iraq on Tuesday, and the military was investigating whether the body of a man found in the Euphrates River early yesterday was that of an American soldier abducted during a deadly ambush south of Baghdad almost two weeks ago, US officials said.
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Gunmen snatched two Americans and a  Briton from a house in central Baghdad on Thursday, the latest  in a wave of abductions of foreigners in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen kidnapped two Americans and a Briton from a house in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood at dawn Thursday, a brazen attack that brought to eight the number of Western civilians held hostage in Iraq.    Ten assailants in a minivan pulled up a tree-lined street in the al-Mansour district - home to many embassies and foreign companies - and snatched the three from their walled, two-story house, said Col...
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Four gunmen abducted three U.S. citizens on a rural highway in southern Mexico, shot and killed two of them and left the third &#151; a pregnant woman &#151; bound and gagged, authorities said Saturday.
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The United States on Thursday confirmed that two Americans and one Briton were abducted in Iraq&#39;s capital Baghdad. &quot;I can confirm for you the US embassy has informed us
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Gunmen attacked a convoy of civilian trucks Friday, killing one guard, and a cache of arms was seized in a Baghdad mosque, officials said. Security forces detained 77 people across Iraq in a crackdown on sectarian and political extremists.
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Coalition forces backed by U.S. aircraft killed eight al-Qaida in Iraq insurgents on Wednesday during a raid that also left two Iraqi women dead, the U.S. military said.
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A body recovered by Iraqi police from the Euphrates River south of Baghdad was identified as one of three American soldiers abducted in an ambush claimed by al-Qaida, the military said Thursday.