U.S.: Hostage Tried to Escape Execution
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Kidnappers beheaded British hostage Kenneth Bigley after twice releasing videos in which he wept and pleaded with Prime Minister Tony Blair for his life. A U.S...
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Description: Margaret Hassan, the British aid worker abducted by insurgents in Baghdad last month, may have been put to death by her captors.
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CAMP PENDLETON, California  - A U.S. Navy medic admitted on Friday taking part in the kidnap of an Iraqi civilian killed by his squad and said the execution-style murder was prompted by his patrol leader's anger at the release of a suspected "terrorist" from Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison.
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Militants threatened to decapitate two Americans and a Briton being held hostage unless their demands were met within 48 hours. In northern Iraq a car bomb killed at least 21 people and wounded 67 yesterday.
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Militants beheaded an American in Iraq  and said two fellow civilian hostages would meet the same fate  within 24 hours if Washington failed to accept their demands.
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The British journalist who was kidnapped in Iraq says he faced mock executions and tried to escape his captors.
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KABUL - Taleban-linked militants threatening to kill three UN hostages are accusing the United States of hampering their release, although an Afghan official says a ransom demand is the main stumbling block.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - The brother of a British hostage held by Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi accused the United States yesterday of sabotaging efforts to save the captive&#39;s life, as US and Iraqi officials continued to insist they could not yield to
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The threat of execution hung over a Briton and two American hostages as their Islamic militant captors' 48-hour deadline for the US-led coalition to free all Iraqi female detainees was due to expire.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Family members of an American and a Briton held hostage in Iraq appealed for their lives after militants vowed to kill one of them Tuesday, a day after beheaded a hostage identified as U.S. civil engineer Eugene Armstrong...
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The threat of execution hung over a Briton and two American hostages as their Islamic militant captors&#39; 48-hour deadline for the US-led coalition to free all Iraqi female detainees was due to expire on Monday.
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A freed hostage tells of bandits, betrayal, and men in black hoods
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KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 18 -- An inmate injured in a deadly Afghan prison shootout Friday will be questioned to determine if he and four comrades, all once suspected of belonging to al Qaeda, were trying to escape or attempting to attack three American prisoners, the warden said Saturday.
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CAIRO, Egypt - A video posted Monday on a Web site showed the beheading of a man identified as American hostage Eugene Armstrong.    The militant group led by Jordanian terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claimed responsibility for the slaying and said another hostage - either another American or a Briton held by the group - will be killed in 24 hours unless all Muslim women prisoners are released from U.S...
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BAGHDAD : The threat of death hung over a Briton and two American hostages as a 48-hour deadline set by their militant captors for the US-led coalition to free all Iraqi female detainees ran out.
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killing of two Americans, as the latest hostage crisis put pressure on governments with troops in Iraq. employers in Italy said they had not given up hope.
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An American hostage in Iraq has been  killed by his captors, who say they also will kill a second  American and a Briton they are holding, a message on an  Islamist Web site said Monday.