Shi'ite militia may have kidnapped Britons in Iraq
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U.S. and Iraqi soldiers searched Baghdad on Wednesday for five kidnapped Britons who Iraq's foreign minister said had probably been taken by a Shi'ite militia.
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The brother of Briton Kenneth Bigley who has been held hostage in Iraq said Monday that the hostage might have been handed over to a group which was preparing to make a ransom demand.
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The operation by U.S. and Iraqi troops may have been aimed at a cleric said to have incited insurgent violence.
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Three British nationals have been abducted in Baghdad, according to the Iraqi interior ministry.
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Britain was urgently checking Tuesday reports that a group of westerners, possibly including Britons, has been kidnapped in Baghdad, the Foreign Office said.
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Radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr  may have escaped the U.S.-led military siege of the Imam Ali  Mosque in Najaf, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said on Friday.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Kidnappers seized six Egyptians and four Iraqis working for the country's mobile phone company, authorities said Friday, and Muslim leaders in Britain announced plans to send negotiators to Baghdad in hopes of winning the release of hostage Kenneth Bigley.    Gunmen abducted two of the Egyptians on Thursday in a bold raid on the firm's Baghdad office - the latest in a string of kidnappings targeting engineers working on Iraq's infrastructure, in a bid to undermine the U.S.-allied interim government...
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Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari  said on Wednesday that Shi&#39;ite Mehdi Army militias were most  likely to have been behind the kidnapping of five Britons in  Baghdad, probably assisted by local police.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq British Muslim officials are asking for the release of a British man being held in Iraq, saying he shouldn&#39;t be held responsible for Britain&#39;s participation in the Iraq war.
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The U.S. military has evidence that Shiite extremists in Iraq are receiving arms and training from Iran, but it is not clear if the Iranian government is involved, a U.S. spokesman said Monday.
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BAGHDAD -- An insurgent group that has claimed responsibility for a series of hostage-takings threatened yesterday to execute two Americans and a Briton who were kidnapped Thursday unless the United States frees female Iraqi prisoners, the Al-Jazeera satellite channel reported.
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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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Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said on Wednesday that Shi'ite Mehdi Army militias were most likely to have been behind the kidnapping of five Britons in Baghdad, probably assisted by local police.
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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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A top aide of radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr says the Mehdi Army did not abduct five Britons in Baghdad.
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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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BAGHDAD -- Scores of US troops descended on the vast Shi'ite district of Sadr City in Baghdad late Tuesday and early yesterday, residents there said, searching several houses in what appeared to be an intense hunt for a British financial consultant and four British bodyguards abducted on Tuesday.