Iraq Hostages&#39; Kin Appeal for Their Lives
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A car bomb struck a US patrol on the road to Baghdad&#39;s airport Tuesday, wounding four American soldiers and several Iraqis. Meanwhile, relatives pleaded for the lives of
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LONDON, United Kingdom -- The family of a British engineer held hostage in Iraq made a final desperate appeal to his captors Thursday to &quot;be merciful&quot;, as hopes for his safe release started to fade.
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THEY have been riven with terror as the world watches the plight of Ken Bigley. But yesterday his family came together to reach out to his captors with emotional pleas for mercy.
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PAUL Bigley, brother of the Iraqi hostage Ken, last night appealed to Tony Blair to &quot;pick up the bloody phone&quot; to save his brother&#39;s life.
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A video posted on an Islamist website purportedly shows a British hostage in Iraq pleading for his life. Militants have threatened to kill Kenneth Bigley unless the US and UK release all Iraqi women held in the country&#39;s prisons.
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BRITAIN has made a televised appeal on an Arab satellite channel for Iraqis to help rescue British hostage Kenneth Bigley, who is being held under threat of death with two US kidnap victims.
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A video tape posted on the Internet shows British hostage Kenneth Bigley making a final appeal to the British Government to meet his captors&#39; demands before he was beheaded by a militant group in Iraq.
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The family of a Japanese man being held hostage in Iraq begged for his life on Friday after the expiry of a deadline set by his captors, who have threatened to behead him unless Japan withdrew its troops.
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The family of Kenneth Bigley, the British hostage being held in Iraq, has made a direct appeal for his release to the militants who abducted the 62-year old-engineer.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Family members of an American and a Briton held by kidnappers in Iraq appealed for their lives after a grisly video posted on the Internet purportedly showed militants beheading U.S. civil engineer Eugene Armstrong and threatening to kill another hostage in 24 hours...
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Colombo, Oct 31 (PTI) Relatives of a Sri Lankan truck driver taken hostage in Iraq today pleaded to his abductors to release him, saying he had been forced to work there by his Kuwaiti employer.
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The husband of Margaret Hassan, a British-Iraqi aid worker snatched by kidnappers on her way to work in Baghdad this week, appealed for her release on Thursday.
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The family of a British hostage in Iraq wait for news after his captors reportedly repeat a threat to kill him.
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BEIRUT: Relatives of a kidnapped member of Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi&#39;s family have begged her captors to release her saying she was pregnant, in a videotape aired by Lebanese satellite channel LBC yesterday.
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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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PLEAS for the life of the lone British hostage in Iraq, Ken Bigley, redoubled last night as American troops continued their assault on the &quot;Sunni triangle&quot; and on the quarters of Baghdad where the hostage-takers have their strongholds.
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The family of a British civil engineer who was kidnapped while working in Iraq called on Friday for the captors to release him, stressing that they were &quot;devastated&quot; by the kidnapping.