Al-Zarqawi group threatens to execute two Americans, Briton
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The Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television station Saturday aired video footage of what it said were two Americans and a Briton kidnapped two days ago from their house in central Baghdad.
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An al Qaeda-linked militant group  beheaded an American hostage in Iraq and threatened on Monday  to kill another two Westerners in 24 hours unless women  prisoners were freed from Iraqi jails.
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A deadline set by militants who have threatened to behead two Americans and a Briton seized in Iraq was due to expire Monday, and more than two dozen other hostages were also facing death unless rebel demands were met.
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Insurgents threatened to kill two  Americans and a Briton unless the United States freed Iraqi  women prisoners, Al Jazeera said Saturday, and a suicide car  bomb killed 23 people outside Iraqi National Guard offices.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - An al-Qaida-linked group led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claimed Tuesday to have killed the second of two American hostages - back-to-back slayings that have notched up the Jordanian militant's ruthless campaign of terror.    The claim, posted on an Islamic Web site, could not immediately be verified...
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A deadline set by militants who have  threatened to behead two Americans and a Briton seized in Iraq  was due to expire Monday, and more than two dozen other  hostages were also facing death unless rebel demands were met.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - The brother of a British hostage held by Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi accused the United States yesterday of sabotaging efforts to save the captive&#39;s life, as US and Iraqi officials continued to insist they could not yield to
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Insurgents threatened to kill two  Americans and a Briton captured in Baghdad and launched a  suicide car bomb attack on Iraqi security forces in the  northern city of Kirkuk on Saturday that killed at least 23  people.
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A video posted Monday on a Web site showed the beheading of a man identified as American civil engineer Eugene Armstrong. The militant group led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claimed responsibility for the slaying and said another hostage &#151; either an American or a Briton &#151; would be killed in 24 hours.
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The threat of execution hung over a Briton and two American hostages as their Islamic militant captors' 48-hour deadline for the US-led coalition to free all Iraqi female detainees was due to expire.
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An Iraqi group linked to al-Qaeda has threatened to kill two American hostages and one British captive within 48 hours unless Iraqi women prisoners are freed, al-Jazeera said.
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Relatives pleaded on Monday for the release of two Americans and a Briton as a deadline loomed for their beheading. In Baghdad, two Sunni Muslim clerics from a powerful conservative group were assassinated within hours of each other.
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Suspected Al-Qaeda operative Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi's group has threatened to execute two Americans and a Briton it is holding unless Iraqi women prisoners are freed within 48 hours, according to a video aired by Al-Jazeera television which showed the captives blindfolded.
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CAIRO, Egypt - A video posted Monday on a Web site showed the beheading of a man identified as American hostage Eugene Armstrong.    The militant group led by Jordanian terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claimed responsibility for the slaying and said another hostage - either another American or a Briton held by the group - will be killed in 24 hours unless all Muslim women prisoners are released from U.S...
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A militant group headed by al Qaeda  ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said on Monday it had beheaded an  American hostage and posted a video of the killing on the  Internet.
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Militants threatened to decapitate two Americans and a Briton being held hostage unless their demands were met within 48 hours. In northern Iraq a car bomb killed at least 21 people and wounded 67 yesterday.
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Insurgents threatened to kill two  Americans and a Briton on Saturday unless Iraqi women prisoners  are freed, and launched a suicide car bomb attack on Iraqi  security forces that killed at least 23 people.