Insurgents hold native of Hillsdale
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BAGHDAD - Kidnappers with links to al-Qaeda threatened in a videotape yesterday to behead a Hillsdale, Mich., native and two other hostages in Iraq within two days unless authorities released female prisoners from two US-run prisons.
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Gunmen kidnapped a first cousin of interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi and two other members of his extended family in Baghdad Tuesday, an Allawi spokesman said Wednesday. In Fallujah, meanwhile, the U.S. military claimed control of 70 percent of the rebellious city.
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MAHMUDIYA, Iraq : US troops battled rebels in the northern town of Tall Afar for a second day as Iraqi and US forces arrested 500 suspected militants in the heartland of the Sunni Muslim insurgency.
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TWO insurgents with links to Iraq&#39;s most wanted man, Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, have been arrested in the turbulent city of Ramadi, the US Marines said.
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Powerful Shiite leader says he plans to lead a mass demonstration today to end fighting. â¢ Iraqi hostage: Militants said Wednesday they had kidnapped the brother-in-law of Iraqi Defense Minister Hazem Shaalan
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BAGHDAD Iraqi officials on Sunday said they had captured a man believed to be Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the last member of Saddam Hussein&#39;s inner circle believed to have been at large, following a gunfight at a medical clinic in a town north of Baghdad.
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Yaser E. Hamdi, a US citizen captured in Afghanistan who was once deemed so dangerous that the US military held him incommunicado for more than two years as an enemy combatant
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HILLSDALE, Mich. - While dozens of their neighbors gathered for an emotional prayer vigil, the family of an American construction worker who was abducted and slain in Iraq said Monday that they were praying for the remaining hostages and their families.
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TIKRIT, Iraq  - An Iraqi wanted by police for  alleged involvement in the beheadings of people working with  U.S.-led forces in Mosul has been arrested by police in the  town of Tikrit, police said Tuesday.
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An Iraqi farmer said Sunday that he saw seven heavily armed gunmen capture two American soldiers during an attack on a road checkpoint south of Baghdad, while U.S. troops searched for their comrades for a second day. Another Iraqi said the Americans were offering &#36;100,000 for information leading to the abductors, but the U.S. command denied that.
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BAGHDAD, Dec 14  - A cousin of ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein has been captured in the flashpoint city of Fallujah where he was fighting with rebels, interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said Tuesday.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - A commander of Taliban  guerrillas in the southern Afghan province of Uruzgan was  captured last week while trying to hide in a well and handed  over to U.S. forces, the provincial governor said on Monday.
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WASHINGTON -- A US citizen who was captured in Afghanistan and is being held as an enemy combatant remains in US custody Thursday.
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Insurgents in Iraq have kidnapped more than 160 foreigners. Those held are:
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MAXINE McKEW: In Iraq, the group led by the country&#39;s most wanted insurgent has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on a police station in western Baghdad.
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In his calls and notes from Iraq, Army Pfc. Kristian Menchaca told relatives about his dangerous assignment at military checkpoints. His family is now hoping for the 23-year-old Houston soldier&#039;s safe return after learning he was one of two servicemen missing in Iraq after an insurgent attack.
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A little-known Iraqi insurgent group said  on Tuesday it was holding a U.S. soldier and threatened to kill  him within 72 hours if Iraqi prisoners were not released,  according to an Internet statement.