Kidnappers Tighten Screw on U.S. Allies in Iraq
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Militants piled more pressure on the  United States' military allies in Iraq on Thursday, seizing a  Polish woman and holding a Japanese man under death threat.
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WASHINGTON -- Coalition personnel mounted two operations last month to rescue members of a group of three hostages held by Iraq, but they didn't find them, a US government official said yesterday.
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US forces in Iraq tightened their cordon around the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah as the Red Cross and Iraqi government dispatched aid packages for the city.
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US teams tried to rescue two Americans and a Briton held hostage in Iraq before they were killed, sources say.
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Gunmen abducted two Americans and a Briton on Thursday in a brazen attack on a house in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood where many embassies and foreign companies are based, the Interior Ministry and witnesses said. It was the latest in a wave of kidnappings of foreigners in Iraq.
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Iraqi insurgents have kidnapped an  American who works as a manager at Baghdad airport, Al Jazeera  television said on Friday.
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Negotiations are held behind the scenes in Iraq to free two Americans and a Briton threatened with beheading.
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_ Gunmen abducted a Lebanese-American contractor who worked with the US Army from his Baghdad home, Iraqi officials said Wednesday, while four Jordanian truck drivers were seized by assailants in a separate kidnapping.
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An Iraqi group said Friday it was holding  a U.S. journalist hostage in Iraq but would release him  Saturday because he was opposed to U.S. administration  policies, according to a statement on the internet.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. and Iraqi forces secured  almost three quarters of Falluja on Wednesday, but Islamist  militants struck back, kidnapping three relatives of the prime  minister and taking 20 Iraqi soldiers hostage.
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Efforts to free three foreign hostages threatened with death by a Taliban splinter group have reached a âsensitiveâ stage, the US military said today, and urged the kidnappers not to harm them.
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U.S. forces in Iraq are striking a variety of "handshake agreements" with Iraqi insurgents and militia groups, sometimes resulting in the release of fighters detained for attacking coalition forces, U.S. military officials said in several recent interviews.
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Washington's closest ally in Iraq was horrified by the beheading of a British hostage there and Prime Minister Tony Blair urged Britons not to let it undermine their support for continued involvement in the country.
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US teams tried to rescue Briton Ken Bigley and two Americans from their Iraq kidnappers, sources say.
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Before troops can leave Iraq, the U.S. must learn who, if anyone, is in control of the gunmen.
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Frightened foreign workers for non-governmental organizations were thinking of leaving Iraq last week after kidnappers seized female aid staff in their office in broad daylight, marking a dangerous evolution in an escalating hostage crisis.
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Militants piled more pressure on  Washington's military allies in Iraq on Thursday, seizing an  Iraqi-Polish woman and holding a Japanese man under threat of  death.