Britain&#39;s crisis cell mobilises over Iraq hostages
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Top government crisis cell prepared for fresh talks Wednesday about how to secure the release of five Britons who were kidnapped in Baghdad in broad daylight, officials said.
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The group holding Care aid worker Margaret Hassan has threatened to hand her over to Abu Musab Al Zarqawi&#39;s terror cell if their demands for the withdrawal of UK troops from Iraq is not met.
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An Iraqi insurgent group is expected to start mediating with the captors of British hostage Kenneth Bigley for his possible release, a Kuwaiti newspaper says, citing militant sources.
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BRIGHTON, England  - Britain appealed on Thursday  to kidnappers holding a hostage in Iraq to make contact -- but  still ruled out negotiations or ransom payment.
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Iraq News, DUBAI - Iraqi-British hostage Margaret Hassan has again urged Britain to withdraw its troops from Iraq and also to free Iraqi women prisoners, Al Jazeera television reports.
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The Muslim Council of Britain sends representatives to Iraq to try to secure the release of British hostage Ken Bigley.
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Efforts to secure the release of Iraq hostage Ken Bigley are being stepped up as a delegation from the Muslim Council of Britain&#39; heads to Baghdad for talks.
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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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BAGHDAD, Sept. 23 -- A British hostage threatened with death by a militant Islamic group appealed to  Prime Minister Tony Blair on Wednesday to save his life by ordering the release of all women held in Iraqi prisons.
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Dubai - Britain&#39;s department of affairs on Sunday launched a televised appeal on an Arab satellite channel for Iraqis to help rescue British hostage Kenneth Bigley who faces a death threat along with two US kidnap victims.
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Iraqi-British hostage Margaret Hassan has urged Britain to withdraw its troops from Iraq and free Iraqi women prisoners, Al Jazeera reported Wednesday.
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Britain&#39;s ambassador to Iraq called on Thursday for the release of five kidnapped Britons and appealed for contacts with their abductors.
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Iraq News, KABUL, A British freelance cameraman said yesterday he was detained by Afghan authorities for his role in the release of three UN hostages and came under pressure to sign a statement saying he was part of the kidnap gang.
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"We are urgently looking into reports that a group of Westerners has been kidnapped."  SEVERAL Britons were feared kidnapped in Baghdad today on another bloody day for Iraq. via Edinburgh News
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BBC News Online looks at how the crisis surrounding the siege of a school in the Russian town of Beslan, where more than 300 people are being held hostage, is developing.
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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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The British Muslim Council said Friday that it was sending representatives to Iraq to try to secure the release of British hostage Ken Bigley held by militants in the country.