How best to win US hostages' release?
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The case of three captives in Colombia, held since 2003, tests the Bush administration's 'no negotiation' policy.
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BAGHDAD, 19 September 2004 - Kidnappers of two Americans and a Briton yesterday threatened to behead them unless Iraqi women held at two American-controlled detention facilities were freed within 48 hours.
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Unexpected difficulties have apparently impeded the hoped-for release of two French journalists being held captive in Iraq. The staging of a joint Iraqi-US counter insurgency raid in Latifiya, southern Iraq
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Militants released seven foreign hostages Wednesday after their employer paid $500,000 ransom, while France mustered support from Muslims at home and abroad to push for the release of two French journalists still held captive in Iraq.    The U.S...
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Iraqi kidnappers seized two Americans and a Briton from their home and office in Baghdad Thursday, CNN reported. US and British officials in Iraq said they were looking into the report from the Iraqi Ministry of Interior.
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Kidnappers beheaded British hostage Kenneth Bigley after twice releasing videos in which he wept and pleaded with Prime Minister Tony Blair for his life. A U.S. official said Friday there was credible information that Bigley had tried to escape with the aid of one of his captors.
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BAGHDAD The families of an American and a British engineer being held hostage by a militant group pleaded Tuesday for officials to help get the men released hours after the group beheaded an American.
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Japan scrambled Wednesday to win the release a 24-year old Japanese man taken hostage by Islamic militants in Iraq, dispatching high level diplomats to the middle east and launching an appeal for his freedom on Arabic television.
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World News, BAGHDAD, IRAQ - Militants who beheaded an American hostage in Iraq threatened to kill another US captive and a Briton on Tuesday, as relatives and diplomats pleaded for their release.
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KABUL, Afghanistan  - Some of the 26 Taliban  members Afghan militants have demanded freed as part of a deal  to release three kidnapped U.N. workers could be in the U.S.  military jail at Guantanamo Bay, a militant spokesman said on  Monday.
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BAGHDAD -- Kidnappers seized two Americans and a Briton from their central Baghdad villa at dawn yesterday, in a bold raid that could further limit the mobility of foreigners in the Iraqi capital.
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IRELAND last night made Kenneth Bigley an Irish citizen in a desperate attempt to secure his release from his terrorist captors and end the hostage&#39;s 19-day ordeal.
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Taliban-linked kidnappers of three UN election workers, including a British woman, claimed today that a deal could be close for their release.
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Americans are torn by debate these   days in Washington over how to treat terrorism suspects. They   feel the United States should set a good example and not   torture. But what if it will save lives?
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Militants linked to wanted terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi have threatened to kill three Western hostages unless the United States releases female prisoners from two Iraqi jails within 48 hours.
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BBC, London, September 19: The wife of an American taken hostage with two others in Baghdad has appealed on television for their release.
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Some of the 26 Taliban members Afghan militants have demanded freed as part of a deal to release three kidnapped UN workers could be in the US military jail