Militants Googled kidnapped reporter
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SYDNEY -- Iraqi militants who kidnapped an Australian reporter in Baghdad and threatened to kill him Googled his name on the Internet to investigate his work before deciding to release him unharmed, the journalist's executive producer said yesterday.
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Palestinian security forces searched  Tuesday for an Israeli Arab producer for CNN television who was  kidnapped by gunmen in the Gaza Strip, and the militant Hamas  group called for his immediate release.
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A French-American journalist is feared kidnapped along with his Iraqi translator in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriya.
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A Web posting in the name of a militant group in Iraq claimed Tuesday to have executed an Italian female journalist, but there was no way to determine the report's credibility.
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Gunmen kidnapped an Italian journalist  in Baghdad on Friday, the latest in a series of brazen  abductions but the first since Iraq's election.
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Gunmen kidnapped an Italian journalist  in Baghdad Friday, the latest in a series of brazen abductions  but the first since Iraq's election.
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A French journalist is abducted in northern Somalia by unidentified gunmen, sources say.
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Dubai - An Iraqi militant group said it had kidnapped 10 people, including two Indonesian women, and demanded that their company cut contacts with foreign forces in Iraq, Al Jazeera television reported on Thursday.
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The Australian journalist kidnapped by Iraqi militants, John Martinkus, never thought that the search engine Google would one day save his life.
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Masked Palestinian gunmen ambushed a car carrying a Fox News crew in Gaza City on Monday and kidnapped two journalists, according to witnesses and Fox.
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Web sites often used by al Qaeda-linked groups said on Monday they would soon show the abduction of three Americans, apparently referring to three U.S. soldiers who went missing in Iraq last month after a clash.
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Arabic language al-Jazeera television is reporting that militants in Iraq have taken 10 more people hostage. Video footage broadcast Thursday shows three hostages, who were not identified, and two masked men pointing guns at the captives.
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A videotape purporting to show the beheading of a Turkish driver kidnapped last month in Iraq surfaced Monday on the Web site of an al-Qaida-linked militant group.
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Elsewhere, Al Jazeera reported that a militant group holding two French hostages had demanded a ransom of $5 million.
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A militant group claiming to have kidnapped three foreign election workers in Afghanistan told news agencies Saturday that the hostages would be killed unless all Taliban
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A U.S. journalist abducted by militants in Iraq and threatened with death said in a video aired Friday that his captors were treating him well, while an Italian journalist also was reported missing in the war-torn country.
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An armed group has kidnapped an  Arab-Israeli employee of CNN news network in the Gaza Strip, Al  Jazeera television reported on Monday.