Iraqi PM&#39;s relatives kidnapped, face execution threat
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Two members of the Iraqi prime minister&#39;s family were nabbed from their home in Baghdad, his spokesman said Wednesday. The kidnappers said they would execute them in two days if their demands are not met.
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An Islamist militant group yesterday threatened to behead three kidnapped relatives of the Iraqi prime minister, Ayad Allawi, unless the assault on Falluja was halted.
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Relatives of a man being held hostage in Iraq waited for word about him Saturday as militants threatened to decapitate him, another American and a Briton unless demands were met within 48 hours.
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Uniformed gunmen kidnapped people from computer stores in Baghdad on Monday as the prime minister, racing to avert civil war, presented a plan to halt sectarian violence by forming local committees and controlling the media.
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The group of Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, which has claimed the gruesome killing of foreign hostages in Iraq, reportedly threatened to execute two Americans and a Briton it is holding unless Iraqi women prisoners are freed within 48 hours.
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Kidnappers have freed the cousin of Iraqi Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, a source in the premier&#39;s office said on Sunday.
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CANBERRA - Prime Minister John Howardâs government was trying to account for all of its citizens in Iraq on Wednesday after militants claimed to have taken two Australians hostage and threatened to execute them.
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Gunmen have abducted three relatives of Iraq&#39;s prime minister from outside their Baghdad home, the interim Iraqi government said on Wednesday.
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BAGHDAD - Two of three relatives of Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi kidnapped last week have been released, Allawi&#39;s office confirmed on Monday.
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The family of British hostage Kenneth Bigley is âwaiting for the worstâ tonight as his kidnappers reiterated their threats to kill him following the apparent execution of a second captive in Iraq.
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Three members of Iraqi Prime Minister  Iyad Allawi's family have been kidnapped by gunmen, a spokesman  for the Iraqi interim government said on Wednesday.
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It is not clear when 75-year-old Ghazi Allawi, the Prime Minister&#39;s first cousin, was freed. A previously unknown Islamist group had seized him along with his wife and their daughter-in-law in Baghdad on November 9.
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Insurgents threatened to behead two  Americans and a Briton captured in Baghdad on Saturday and  launched a suicide car bomb attack on Iraqi security forces in  the northern city of Kirkuk that killed at least 23 people.
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CAIRO, Egypt - Prime Minister Ayad Allawi&#39;s (search) cousin has been released by his kidnappers, the Iraqi leader&#39;s office said Saturday.
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A militant group led by Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claimed responsibility Monday for kidnapping and then releasing three family members of Iraq&#39;s interim prime minister, Ayad Allawi.
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The family of a British man being held hostage in Iraq has pleaded with the prime minister to meet the captors demands and save the hostage s life.
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THE family of Margaret Hassan, the British aid worker abducted in Iraq, was increasingly concerned about her fate last night after the kidnappersâ ultimatum expired.