Kidnappers Release Seven Hostages in Iraq
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BAGHDAD, Iraq Sept. 28, 2004 - Kidnappers released two Italian aid workers and five other hostages Tuesday, raising hopes for at least 18 foreigners still in captivity.
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Two female Italian hostages seized in  Baghdad three weeks ago were set free on Tuesday along with  kidnapped Iraqis and Egyptians in a flurry of releases, with  two French journalists also close to being freed.
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Seven oil workers who were kidnapped from an offshore oil field in the Niger Delta were released Monday after two days in captivity, police said.
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Egypt said Tuesday that Iraqi kidnappers had freed one Egyptian hostage and were expected to release three others shortly. The holding company that employed the four hostages confirmed that
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Nigerian militants said they  planned to release 11 foreign hostages in the oil producing  Niger Delta on Monday and state authorities said they were on  their way to collect them.
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A Kuwaiti company with seven truck  drivers held captive in Iraq said Wednesday that they have been  freed by their captors.
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Two Italian female aid workers held hostage in Iraq for the last three weeks have been released.
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Eight Chinese workers taken hostage by  guerrillas in Iraq earlier this month have been freed and  located by Chinese embassy staff in Baghdad, the embassy said  Sunday.
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The Arab news network Al-Jazeera showed footage Thursday of 10 new hostages seized in Iraq by militants. Al-Jazeera said the 10 six Iraqis, two Lebanese and two Indonesian women were taken by The Islamic Army in Iraq.
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Insurgents in Iraq released eight  Chinese hostages after China advised its nationals to stay away  from the wartorn country.
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Kidnappers in Iraq have freed a seven-year-old boy a week after seizing him while on his way to school.
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Two kidnapped Italian aid workers were freed Tuesday after three weeks of captivity in Iraq, and six other hostages in the country were also released.
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Gunmen who kidnapped 30 people at a Red Crescent office in Baghdad on Sunday have freed 17 hostages, an official of the humanitarian group said on Monday.
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Iraqi kidnappers have released 10 Turkish hostages they had held for over a month after their Turkish employer said it would leave Iraq, Al Jazeera television said on Sunday.
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An Iraqi insurgency group says it has released two French journalists held hostage since August, delivering them to the French Embassy in Baghdad, the Arab-language television network Al-Jazeera reported.
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SEVEN truck drivers from Egypt, Kenya and India held hostage in Iraq since July 21 and working for a Kuwaiti firm have been released, Al-Arabiya television has reported.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Militants in Iraq freed seven foreign truck drivers Wednesday after holding them six weeks, while Muslims united behind calls for the release of two French reporters captured by a separate group demanding that France revoke a ban on Muslim head scarves in schools.    Also Wednesday, gunmen shot at a convoy carrying former Iraqi Governing Council member Ahmad Chalabi as he returned from Najaf to attend the first meeting of Iraq's 100-member National Council, which is to act as a watchdog over the interim government and help shepherd the nation to elections...