Britain Hopes and Prays for Hostage in Iraq
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Anxious Britons awaited news on Wednesday of hostage Kenneth Bigley after his captors in Iraq said they beheaded the second of two Americans being held with him.
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Britain will do all it can to help free five UK citizens kidnapped in Baghdad, Prime Minister Tony Blair says.
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The brother of a British engineer kidnapped in Iraq said he was encouraged by the release of two Italian aid workers held hostage in the country for three weeks, while Prime Minister Tony Blair said the British government was
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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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British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said that there was little hope of obtaining the release of a British hostage held in Iraq whose two US colleagues were executed this week.
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Prominent British Muslims have arrived in Kuwait, en route to Baghdad to plea for the release of hostage Kenneth Bigley, nine days after the 62-year-old engineer was kidnapped.
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BRIGHTON, England/DUBAI  - Prime Minister Tony  Blair said on Wednesday Britain would respond to the captors of  hostage Kenneth Bigley in Iraq if they made contact with his  government.
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Prominent British Muslims arrived in  Kuwait on Saturday en route to Baghdad to plead for the release  of hostage Kenneth Bigley, nine days after the 62-year-old  engineer was kidnapped.
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BRITAIN made an impassioned plea to Iraqis today for information on the whereabouts of the body of British hostage Kenneth Bigley, still missing more than one week after he was beheaded.
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Baghdad - Two British Muslim leaders made an emotional appeal in Baghdad on Sunday for the release of British hostage Kenneth Bigley saying he was a &quot;victim like civilians in Fallujah.
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LONDON, United Kingdom -- The family of a British engineer held hostage in Iraq made a final desperate appeal to his captors Thursday to &quot;be merciful&quot;, as hopes for his safe release started to fade.
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LIVERPOOL, England  - Prayers were being offered  for British engineer Kenneth Bigley as news on Wednesday of a  possible breakthrough raised hopes he might escape the gruesome  fate of his fellow hostages in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Arab news network Al-Jazeera on Wednesday broadcast footage of British hostage Kenneth Bigley pleading to British Prime Minister Tony Blair to work for his release.    The footage showed a sobbing Bigley talking from behind bars of what appeared to be a prison cell...
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DUBAI/LONDON, SEPTEMBER 29: A British hostage in Iraq made an impassioned plea to PM Tony Blair to help free him in a videotape aired on Wednesday that left relatives relieved to see him alive but appalled at his caged conditions.
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The government pledges to do all it can to secure the release of a British civil engineer kidnapped in Iraq.
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The family of a Briton held hostage in Iraq issue an emotional plea for his release to the militants holding him.
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Militants beheaded a British hostage near Baghdad despite secret 11th-hour efforts by London to free Kenneth Bigley from kidnappers whose video messages had played on British emotions on the war in Iraq for three weeks.