Iraqi Kidnappers Demand Release of Militant Indonesian Cleric
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Kidnappers holding two Indonesian women hostages in Iraq are demanding the release of a militant cleric accused of leading a terrorist group in Southeast Asia.
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Somalia's Islamists demands that the self-declared republic of Somaliland free a Muslim cleric.
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Muslim and Christian religious leaders in the hometown of a British hostage facing death in Iraq have appealed for his captors to free him.
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Kidnappers have abducted a Turkish  shipping magnate and three others in southern Iraq and demanded  a $25 million ransom, the Turkish private NTV television  channel said on Saturday.
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France demanded Islamic militants release two journalists held hostage in Iraq on Sunday and defended the ban on Muslim headscarves in school the kidnappers want revoked.
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Radical militants on Tuesday kidnapped one man who they claimed to be Japanese and demanded the withdrawal of Japanese troops from Iraq.
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The Iraqi government said it would release one of the female prisoners whose freedom is being demanded by Islamic militant kidnappers who are threatening to kill a third Western hostage.
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Lawyers of militant Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir on Monday urged a court to release him, in the latest hitch in the struggle to convict the elderly Indonesian of heading the Al Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiah (JI).
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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 hostage Kenneth Bigley are appealing for his release in Iraq as the threat of execution hangs over him. Mr Bigley and two Americans were seized in Baghdad on Thursday and threatened with death unless their abductors&#39; demands were met.
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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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A top aide to firebrand Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said today that kidnappers who abducted and threatened to kill a US journalist had promised to set him free.
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The insurgent group al-Qaida in Iraq called Friday for the release of the kidnapped executive of the CARE charity, Margaret Hassan
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An Iraqi militant group has asked Indonesia to release Abu Bakar Bashir, a cleric accused of leading the extremist Jemaah Islamiyah group, in exchange for two kidnapped Indonesian hostages, in a video broadcast by Al-Jazeera television.
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Japan&#39;s Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura has urged Islamic militants in Iraq to release a Japanese hostage, in an interview with the Arabic satellite network Al-Jazeera.
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Kidnappers holding an Iraqi humanitarian aide worker threatened Tuesday to turn her over to one of the most feared Muslim terrorists in the nation.
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Relatives pleaded Monday for the release of two Americans and a Briton held hostage as a deadline loomed for their beheading. In Baghdad, gunmen assassinated two clerics from a powerful Sunni Muslim group opposed to the US presence in Iraq.