Shi'ite militia may have kidnapped Britons in Iraq
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Iraq's foreign minister said on Wednesday he suspected Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army militia was behind the abduction of five Britons from a government building in Baghdad.
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The families of five British men taken prisoner in Iraq in May have appealed to their captors to release them.
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The government considered a UK operation to arrest those suspected of killing six Red Caps in Iraq, papers reveal.
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Hundreds of militiamen were arrested today when police entered the Imam Ali Mosque, but rebel Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr was not found, Iraqi officials said.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Militants beheaded three hostages said to be Iraqi Kurd militiamen, showing their deaths in a video posted on a Web site Sunday and denouncing Kurdish political parties for cooperating with Americans in Iraq.    In a separate incident, a group claimed to have kidnapped 25 members of the Iraqi National Guard, and a report on the Arabic station Al-Jazeera said the soldiers were threatened with death unless a detained Shiite leader is freed within 48 hours...
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Five Britons kidnapped in Baghdad in May are believed to be alive, a senior US military commander said Tuesday.
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U.S. and Iraqi soldiers raided Baghdad's Sadr City slum on Wednesday, searching for five kidnapped Britons who Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said had probably been seized by a Shi'ite Muslim militia.
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Ken Bigley, the British hostage held in Iraq, may have been handed over to another militant group, his brother Paul told Sky News.
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Time appears to be running out for a British hostage kidnapped in Baghdad, after his Muslim extremist captors threatened to kill him if their demands are not met.
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BAGHDAD, October 20 (Online): Kidnappers seized the British-Iraqi head of an international charity group in Baghdad on Tuesday and later she was shown sitting anxiously and alone in a video broadcast by an Arabic television station.
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Iraqi kidnappers seized two Americans and a Briton from their home and office in Baghdad Thursday, CNN reported. US and British officials in Iraq said they were looking into the report from the Iraqi Ministry of Interior.
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The top U.S. commander in Iraq said in an interview published on Thursday that kidnappers who seized five Britons in Baghdad last month had links to Iran, adding he believed the captives were still alive.
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Britain is considering a direct approach to Iran for help in finding five British hostages in Iraq.
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US troops in Iraq say they have arrested a suspected leader of a Shia militia group allegedly backed by Iran.
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Three British nationals, believed to be  civilians, were snatched by gunmen from a house in central  Baghdad early on Thursday, Iraq's Interior Ministry said.
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Gunmen in Iraqi police uniforms kidnapped five Britons -- a computer expert and his four bodyguards -- from a finance ministry building in Baghdad on Tuesday, officials said.
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Clerics differ on who was responsible for the kidnapping in Baghdad.