Britain Wants Contact with Iraq Hostage Takers
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BRIGHTON, England  - Britain appealed on Thursday  to kidnappers holding a hostage in Iraq to make contact but  ruled out doing a deal as Prime Minister Tony Blair failed to  shift the country's focus off the divisive war.
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Hostage Margaret Hassan has urged Britain to withdraw its troops from Iraq and free Iraqi women prisoners, Aljazeera has reported.
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A British hostage threatened with death by a militant Islamic group appealed to Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain yesterday to save
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Britain made an impassioned plea to Iraqis for information on the whereabouts of the body of British hostage Kenneth Bigley, still missing more than one week after he was beheaded.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair spoke to the family of Kenneth Bigley, the Briton who is being held hostage in Iraq.
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The family of a Briton held hostage in Iraq issue an emotional plea for his release to the militants holding him.
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Britain is ready to listen to kidnappers holding a British hostage in Iraq but is not prepared to negotiate with them or pay them a ransom, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said on Thursday.
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The British government Friday urgedthe kidnappers in Iraq to release Margaret Hassan, director of CARE International in the country, after her video was aired by Arabian-language TV channel al-Jazeera.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq British Muslim officials are asking for the release of a British man being held in Iraq, saying he shouldn&#39;t be held responsible for Britain&#39;s participation in the Iraq war.
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British security officials hunting for Margaret Hassan are trying to contact the intermediary who acted as the conduit with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi&#39;s group during the kidnapping of Kenneth Bigley.
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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 The British Foreign Office says its embassy in Baghdad has printed 50-thousand leaflets urging Iraqis to help find a kidnapped British citizen.
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Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has personally contacted the family of a Briton kidnapped in Iraq to reassure them as they anxiously await news, the Foreign Office announced today.
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Britain is urgently checking reports that a group of westerners, possibly including Britons, has been kidnapped in Baghdad, the Foreign Office said Tuesday.
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Paul Bigley, brother of Kenneth Bigley who is being held hostage by militants in Iraq, called on British Prime Minister Tony Blair Monday to step up efforts to win the release
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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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A high-level British government crisis cell met Tuesday to discuss how to respond to the abduction of five Britons who were seized in broad daylight in Baghdad.