Afghanistan: Briton &#39;Kidnapped by Thieves, Not Taliban&#39;
121129
An Afghan official said criminals were holding a British woman and two other kidnapped United Nations workers, not the Taliban-linked group that has threatened to kill them unless its jailed comrades are freed.
767048
Britain was urgently checking Tuesday reports that a group of westerners, possibly including Britons, has been kidnapped in Baghdad, the Foreign Office said.
181242
Prime Minister Tony Blair has his government is doing all in its power to help a kidnapped Briton -- but he has avoided a public response to insurgents threatening to kill the man.
4399
Three foreign election workers were kidnapped by armed men in the Afghan capital Kabul on Thursday, government officials said. The workers were from Britain, the Philippines and Kosovo, the
537351
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Gunmen wearing military uniforms kidnapped three foreign UN election workers here in a daylight attack yesterday in one of the most affluent and heavily guarded areas of the city. The kidnappings, coming five days after a suicide bomber killed two people, including an American woman, on a busy shopping street, raised fears that the Afghan capital could ...
230418
Gunmen in police uniforms captured five British citizens in a Baghdad Finance Ministry building yesterday, the British Foreign Office said. Scores of foreign civilians have been kidnapped in Iraq since the 2003 invasion. Most have been released, sometimes after the payment of ransom. Many were killed, especially in 2004 when Sunni insurgents frequently filmed gruesome beheading videos in an attempt ...
540821
The British government confirmed Wednesday that a Western woman&#39;s body found by US forces in Iraq last month was not that of British hostage Magaret Hassan, who wasbelieved to be killed by her captors.
355225
A militant group which has claimed responsibility for kidnapping three foreigners in Afghanistan says the hostages are safe. The Jaish-e-Muslimeen (Army of Muslims), a breakaway Taliban faction
334452
Reports that Britons kidnapped in  Ethiopia have been found are investigated by the Foreign Office.
577085
KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 14 -- A Turkish engineer and two Afghans were apparently kidnapped Tuesday in an area of eastern Afghanistan where bandits and insurgents from the Taliban and other Islamic extremist groups operate, officials said.
106745
ADDIS ABABA - Eritrea dismissed as "baseless fabrication" accusations by an Ethiopian official that Eritrean forces had kidnapped a group of British tourists in a remote ...Comment
254725
17 November 2004 -- Afghanistan&#39;s Interior Ministry says it believes three UN workers abducted nearly three weeks ago in Afghanistan are probably still being held in the area but not by the Taliban splinter group that claims to be seeking negotiations on
349333
Three U.N. workers abducted almost three  weeks ago in Afghanistan are probably being held by criminals  and not by a Taliban splinter group that has threatened to kill  them, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday.
111309
The Taliban said on Tuesday they had captured a Briton and two Afghans in the southern province of Helmand, a major drug producer, but gave no further details.
251215
The Afghan government on Thursday blamed drug smugglers -- not Taliban or al-Qaida fighters -- for a bomb attack on interim leader Hamid Karzai&#39;s vice presidential
293124
Britain said Monday it was not "engaged" with the Taliban, after a report that relations between London and Kabul have soured due to a secret British plan to train former Taliban fighters.
244991
"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