Kidnappings of foreign civilians
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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 ...
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Kidnappings by Muslim militants have driven non-Iraqis and those working with them into hiding to a degree not experienced since the nationwide uprising in April kept most foreigners locked inside their compounds.
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In Iraq, where the kidnapping of foreign nationals has become more and more frequent, several recent examples indicate that governments are willing to pay up or offer political concessions to secure the release ...
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Men in military uniforms held up a United Nations vehicle in Kabul yesterday and abducted three election workers at gunpoint. It was the first kidnapping of UN or aid workers
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Insurgents in Iraq have kidnapped nearly 150 foreigners in their campaign to drive out coalition forces and hamper reconstruction:
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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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Kabul:Three foreign election workers in Afghanistan have been kidnapped in the capital, Kabul, officials say. The three were taken at gunpoint.
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Baghdad - Gunmen kidnapped a Lebanese-American businessman - the second United States citizen seized this week in Baghdad - and militants released a tape showing the beheading of an Iraqi officer as a warning to those who deal with &quot;the infidel&quot; Americans
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TWO Arab nationals, a US citizen and an Asian, were kidnapped today from their offices in Baghdad. Colonel Adnan Abdul Rahman, an interior ministry spokesman, said militants struck in a well-off neighbourhood in central Baghdad.
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Insurgents in Iraq have kidnapped more than 150 foreigners in their campaign to drive out coalition forces and hamper reconstruction:
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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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The Afghan election commission has confirmed the kidnapping of three foreign election workers in the capital of Kabul, according to CRIENGLISH.
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Insurgents in Iraq have kidnapped more than 120 foreigners in their campaign to drive out coalition forces and hamper reconstruction:
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MEKELE, Ethiopia, March 3 -- Ethiopian officials on Saturday accused forces from archrival Eritrea of kidnapping five British citizens and 13 Ethiopians who were touring a remote region near the African countries' long-disputed border, then taking the group to a military camp in Eritrea.
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The foreign community&#39;s fragile sense of security took another blow Friday as news spread of the latest kidnapping of foreigners in the Iraqi capital
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Kidnappings by Muslim militants have driven non-Iraqis and those working with them into hiding to a degree not experienced since the nationwide uprising in April kept most foreigners locked inside their ...
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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