Iraqi Militants Behead Hostage, Set New Deadline
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Militants beheaded an American in Iraq  and said two fellow civilian hostages would meet the same fate  within 24 hours if Washington failed to accept their demands.
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Militants holding three UN workers hostage in Afghanistan have offered to consider extending a three-day deadline for their beheading.
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Afghan militants holding three foreigners hostage have said they will kill them unless Taleban and al-Qaeda prisoners are released by Wednesday.
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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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A purported statement by Iraqi militants  holding two French journalists hostage demanded a $5 million  ransom on Monday and set a 48-hour deadline.
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A statement posted on a Web site purportedly by an Iraqi group which said it was holding two French hostages set a &#36;5 million ransom on Monday and issued a 48-hour deadline for its demands to be met.
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Militants in Iraq said they had  beheaded a second American hostage and would kill a Briton  unless Iraqi women were freed from jail.
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Baghdad: Islamic militants beheaded a US citizen in Iraq, while the lives of his two British and American colleagues were in grave danger after a 48-hour deadline to save them expired.
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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
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The Iraqi government said it would release one of the female prisoners whose freedom is being demanded by Islamic militant kidnappers who are threatening to kill a third Western hostage.
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An Iraqi militant group has threatened to behead a Turkish hostage within three days unless the United States releases all Iraqi prisoners and Turkish nationals leave Iraq, Al Arabiya television said on Monday.
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Militants killed a second American captive in Iraq after a 24-hour deadline passed on Tuesday, a Web site statement and Arab television said.
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Kabul - Militants holding three United Nations workers hostage in Afghanistan extended the deadline for their execution to late Wednesday, saying they wanted to allow more time for negotiations.
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Aides to radical Shi&#39;ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr say militants holding a US journalist hostage in Iraq will release him soon. The aides said they have been in contact with a group calling itself the Martyrs
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Iraqi militants have renewed their threat to kill British hostage Kenneth Bigley unless Iraqi women are released from prison, despite justice officials confirming today that one of the two females currently in US custody could be freed imminently.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - 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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Militants holding three UN workers hostage in Afghanistan have said they will give officials until Friday to meet their demands. The group had previously suggested it would start killing the hostages on Wednesday