Report: Cleric swap for hostages
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Arabic-language news channel Al-Jazeera has reported hostage-takers in Iraq are demanding Indonesia&#39;s government release Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Ba&#39;asyir in exchange for two female hostages.
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Ken Bigley, the British hostage held in Iraq, may have been handed over to another militant group, his brother Paul told Sky News.
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MOSUL/VATICAN CITY  - The Iraqi Catholic  archbishop of Mosul was kidnapped at gunpoint on Monday and the  Vatican demanded his quick release and deplored what it branded  an act of terrorism.
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The tape called for kidnappings to try to force the release of a high-profile Muslim cleric imprisoned in the U.S.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq  Saying their rebel Shiite cleric opposes abductions, top aides to Muqtada al-Sadr appealed to kidnappers to free a Western journalist they are threatening to kill unless US forces ...
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A senior Anglican clergyman with many years experience in Iraq believes British hostage Kenneth Bigley was sold by the men who seized him to the hardline Tawhid wal Jihad (Unity and Holy War) organisation, The ...
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BAGHDAD, Oct. 7 -- The U.S. military released a senior aide to the rebellious Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr on Thursday, and Sadr aides said momentum was growing toward an agreement to disband the cleric's militia, which would halt a major element of the insurgency in Iraq.
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A Yemeni cleric on trial for allegedly helping terrorist groups told FBI informants that he could arrange for their associates to receive military training by Hamas, according to a transcript read in federal ...
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AN Iraqi cleric has said he met British hostage Ken Bigley, who is being held in Baghdad.
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Notorious Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi appears to be increasingly desperate, accusing Muslim clerics of betrayal in an audio recording released Wednesday.
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A kidnapped American journalist was released Sunday after the intervention of the cleric Moktada al-Sadr, even as his Shiite militia engaged
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BAGHDAD, Iraq  A top aide to firebrand Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who appealed to kidnappers to free a Western journalist, said Friday they had promised to release him.
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A Pakistani cleric holed up in a mosque in Islamabad said on Thursday he and his student followers were willing to surrender, raising hopes of an end to a confrontation in which 19 people have died.
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Iraqi kidnappers may have sold two Italian women hostages to militants tied to Al-Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Deputy Iraqi Foreign Minister Hamid al-Bayati has been quoted as saying.
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A deal has been struck with the kidnappers of two journalists working for CBS News who were reported missing in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, a spokesman for influential Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said on Wednesday.
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Elsewhere, Al Jazeera reported that a militant group holding two French hostages had demanded a ransom of $5 million.
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Al Qaeda's leader in Iraq urged his   followers to capture foreign hostages to try to free a Muslim   cleric jailed in the United States, according to an Internet   audio tape issued on Thursday.