UN Election Workers Held Hostage in Afghanistan
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Description: A Taliban splinter group releases a video of United Nations election workers held hostage. The victims, seen on the al Jazeera Arabic news channel, are a British woman from Northern Island, a Kosovar woman and a Filipino man.
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Nato troops are hunting for three UN workers, one of them British-Irish, kidnapped in Afghanistan&#39;s first Iraqi-style abduction yesterday.
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Three foreign election workers were  kidnapped by armed men in the Afghan capital Kabul on Thursday,  government officials said.
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Mrs Flanigan and two other UN officials were snatched in the capital Kabul last week while monitoring the country`s presidential election.
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A UN election worker holding dual British and Irish nationality is among three foreigners seized in Afghanistan today.
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Three foreign election workers are abducted in the Afghan capital Kabul. A Briton is among them. They are kidnapped near an office of the joint UN-Afghan electoral body set up to oversee the recent presidential election.
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Three foreign UN workers who were taken hostage last month in Afghanistan have been released unharmed, officials say. A senior Afghan official told the BBC one of the kidnappers had been killed and four others seriously wounded in a military operation.
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A British hotelier said Thursday he had been detained over the kidnapping of three U.N. election workers in Afghanistan and claimed to have helped negotiate their release from the clutches of Taliban-linked militants.
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Three UN election workers freed nearly a month after being abducted in Afghanistan thanked the nation&#39;s people for the support shown during their ordeal.
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KABUL : The deadline set by a Taliban splinter group to execute three foreign UN election workers it claims to be holding captive passed overnight with no word on their fate.
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17 November 2004 -- Afghanistan&#39;s Interior Ministry believes three UN workers abducted nearly three weeks ago in Afghanistan are probably still being held in the area.
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Police detained seven suspects for questioning in the kidnapping of three UN election workers in the Afghan capital, officials said Friday, but investigators appeared no closer to establishing whether Taliban-linked militants or criminals were responsible
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KABUL -- Three UN workers kidnapped in Afghanistan are in the hands of criminals, not Taliban-linked militants who have threatened to kill them, an Afghan official said Wednesday.
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KABUL: Three United Nations hostages were freed early on Tuesday after almost four weeks in captivity in Afghanistan, with kidnappers claiming that Taliban prisoners were due to be released in exchange.
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Militants holding hostage three foreign UN workers in Afghanistan said they negotiated yesterday with Afghan government and UN officials in southern Afghanistan but that the meeting ended without results.
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Taliban-linked militants have threatened to execute three foreign UN workers kidnapped in Kabul unless British troops withdraw from Afghanistan and Afghan prisoners are freed from US custody in Guantanamo Bay.
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The abduction of three foreign election workers in Afghanistan could force aid groups to reduce their international staff in a country that just finished counting votes in its first direct presidential election.