British Muslims try to secure hostage's release
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Prominent British Muslims have arrived in Baghdad to plead for the release of 62-year-old engineer Kenneth Bigley, seized by Islamist militants 10 days ago, amid fears that he could soon be executed.
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Britain's leading Muslim organisation dispatched two envoys to Iraq, hoping to help secure the release of a British engineer taken hostage by Muslim extremists eight days ago.
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A videotape posted on Islamic Web site Wednesday showed a man identifying himself as British hostage Kenneth Bigley pleading for British Prime Minister Tony Blair to help save his life.
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A team from the Muslim Council of Britain will tonight head for Baghdad to make a last-ditch plea to Islamic militants to spare the life of British hostage Ken Bigley.
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Hamas said on Wednesday it was working to secure the release of BBC journalist Alan Johnston, whose 100 days of captivity in the hands of Palestinian extremists in the Gaza Strip was marked by journalists and other supporters in worldwide vigils.
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BAGHDAD : Kidnapped British engineer Kenneth Bigley begged London to meet his captors&#39; demands and free Iraqi prisoners, in a new video broadcast on Arab television, amid a flurry of hostage releases.
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A video tape posted on the Internet  Sunday showed British hostage Kenneth Bigley making a final  appeal to the British government to meet his captors' demands  before he was beheaded by a militant Islamist group.
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said, in a move that may raise hopes for the release of a British hostage. soldiers, could be freed as part of a review of her detention.
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British, American and Iraqi authorities were trying last night to secure the freedom of Margaret Hassan, the Irish-born aid worker kidnapped in Baghdad early yesterday.
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The fate of a British hostage kidnapped in Baghdad was looking increasingly perilous today, after his Muslim extremist captors threatened to kill him if their demands are not met.
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A British hostage has appeared on a video posted on an Islamic website weeping and pleading for his life.
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The government appealed for the release of a Briton held hostage in Iraq in a message aired on Arabic satellite television channels.
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LONDON - British Prime Minister Tony Blair says there&#39;s little he can do to secure the release of Ken Bigley, the British hostage being held in Iraq.
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IRELAND last night made Kenneth Bigley an Irish citizen in a desperate attempt to secure his release from his terrorist captors and end the hostage&#39;s 19-day ordeal.
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British Muslims live in a &quot;police state&quot;, one of two men released by police after being held in connection with an investigation into an alleged &quot;Iraq-style&quot; kidnapping and beheading plot, said in an interview with the BBC.
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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.
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This week, a delegation of British Muslims returned from a high profile effort to secure the release of a British hostage, civilian Kenneth Bigley, held in Iraq since September 16th.