Envoys in Iraq on mission to save British hostage
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Two members of the Muslim Council of Britain are in Iraq planning to meet Muslim leaders in Baghdad in an attempt to seek the release of the British hostage Ken Bigley.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A weeping British hostage was shown pleading for help between the bars of a makeshift cage in a video that surfaced Wednesday, a sobering reminder of the grim reality for at least 18 foreign captives still held by Iraqi militants.    There is wide speculation that ransoms were paid for the freedom of a dozen hostages, including two Italian aid workers...
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A PLEA for help in finding the body of murdered Iraq hostage Ken Bigley was broadcast throughout the Gulf states yesterday. The British Ambassador to Iraq, Edward Chaplin, appealed on the Arabic TV station
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Britain&#39;s ambassador to Iraq has made a televised appeal to Iraqis for help in finding the body of engineer Kenneth Bigley, beheaded by his kidnappers this month.
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The brother of a British engineer held hostage in Iraq said he was encouraged about a possible release after two Italian aid workers were freed after three weeks, while Prime Minister Tony Blair said the British government was trying to contact the man's abductors.
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London - Prime Minister Tony Blair is doing &quot;everything he possibly can&quot; to save the British engineer kidnapped in Iraq, Blair&#39;s deputy said on Tuesday as the hostage&#39;s family took encouragement from an offer of help by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
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The US and British embassies in Iraq pressed ahead with efforts to free two US citizens and a Briton kidnapped at gunpoint from their home in Baghdad this week.
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The British government and the brother of a British hostage in Iraq have appealed for his release on pan-Arab satellite television.
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Diplomatic efforts mount as a deadline nears for two French journalists held hostage in Iraq.
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France intensified efforts Tuesday to save two journalists held hostage in Iraq, convening crisis talks in Paris and around the Arab world as a 24-hour execution deadline set by militants neared.
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The senior Islamic body in Britain, the Muslim Council of Britain, has sent two envoys to Baghdad to try to secure the release of the kidnapped engineer Kenneth Bigley.
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Ambassadors meet in Baghdad to discuss Iraq security situation.
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The British Embassy in Baghdad has distributed 50,000 leaflets carrying a message from the family of a Briton kidnapped in Iraq that pleas with residents to help find the man, the Foreign Office said Friday.
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The families of five Britons kidnapped in Iraq in May appealed Thursday to their captors for their release, as Foreign Secretary David Miliband said he was &quot;deeply concerned&quot; for them.
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LONDON, United Kingdom -- The family of a British engineer held hostage in Iraq made a final desperate appeal to his captors Thursday to &quot;be merciful&quot;, as hopes for his safe release started to fade.
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BRIGHTON, England  - Britain's Tony Blair appealed  Thursday to kidnappers holding a hostage in Iraq to make  contact -- but ruled out doing deals as domestic divisions over  the war continued to dog the prime minister.
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The Muslim Council of Britain sends representatives to Iraq to try to secure the release of British hostage Ken Bigley.