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Relatives pleaded on Monday for the release of two Americans and a Briton as a deadline loomed for their beheading. In Baghdad, two
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A weeping British hostage was shown pleading for help between the bars of a makeshift cage in a video that surfaced Wednesday, a sobering reminder of the grim reality for at least 18 foreign captives still held by Iraqi militants.    On Thursday, U.S...
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THE family of a British engineer kidnapped in Iraq by gunmen last night begged for his release. Relatives of 62-year-old Ken Bigley said they were struggling to understand why the dad-of-one was targeted along with two Americans.
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Families of eight Chinese labourers held hostage by militants in Iraq plead for their release.
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Families of eight Chinese hostages in  Iraq pleaded on Thursday for their release as a deadline set by  their captors neared, and Japan said it was checking reports  one of its citizens had been kidnapped.
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Anguished relatives begged for the lives of an American and a Briton kidnapped in Iraq as the deadline passed Tuesday for another hostage to be beheaded by terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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BAGHDAD: Iraqâs hostage crisis deepened as militants who beheaded two Americans let a Briton make a desperate videotaped plea for his life, while other extremist groups claimed on Thursday to have executed two women Italian aid workers.
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Militants who beheaded an American  hostage in Iraq threatened to kill another U.S. captive and a  Briton on Tuesday, as relatives and diplomats pleaded for their  release.
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LIVERPOOL, England  - Hundreds of Britons held a  candlelit vigil on Tuesday for a hostage threatened with  beheading in Iraq amid reports that his abductors had killed a  second U.S. captive.
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BBC, London, September 19: The wife of an American taken hostage with two others in Baghdad has appealed on television for their release.
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The wife of an American hostage in Iraq has pleaded for his captors to open talks after Islamic militants demanding the release of female prisoners in Iraq beheaded another American captive.
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The family of a Briton held hostage in Iraq have issued an emotional plea for his release as the deadline approaches. Philip Bigley said his brother Ken regarded the Arab world as his &quot;home from home&quot; and
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The family of a British engineer kidnapped in Baghdad issued a plea for his release yesterday, saying they were &quot;devastated&quot; that he had been taken.
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The family of a British hostage threatened with execution in Iraq made a desperate appeal to Prime Minister Tony Blair on Tuesday to meet kidnappers' demands and save his life.
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Relatives pleaded Monday for the release of two Americans and a Briton held hostage as a deadline loomed for their beheading. In Baghdad, gunmen assassinated two clerics from a powerful Sunni Muslim group opposed to the US presence in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD, 19 September 2004 - Kidnappers of two Americans and a Briton yesterday threatened to behead them unless Iraqi women held at two American-controlled detention facilities were freed within 48 hours.
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LONDON - The British government and the brother of a British hostage have taken to Arab-language airwaves in an attempt to have him released from his captors in Iraq.