Iraq's kidnapping crisis deepens
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Two Egyptians are seized in Baghdad as anguish mounts in the UK and Italy over their kidnapped nationals.
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Gunmen in Iraqi army uniforms staged a mass kidnapping on Sunday at the office of the Iraqi Red Crescent in downtown Baghdad, police said.
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DUBAI/PARIS  - The French government held crisis  talks on the fate of two French journalists held hostage in  Iraq Wednesday amid growing uncertainty over whether their  kidnappers had demanded a ransom and two-day deadline.
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Gunmen kidnap many people from the Iraqi office of the Red Crescent aid agency in Baghdad.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen kidnapped two Americans and a Briton from a house in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood at dawn Thursday, a brazen attack that brought to eight the number of Western civilians held hostage in Iraq.    Ten assailants in a minivan pulled up a tree-lined street in the al-Mansour district - home to many embassies and foreign companies - and snatched the three from their walled, two-story house, said Col...
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Insurgents in Iraq have kidnapped more than 150 foreigners. Those reported held are:
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Gunmen in camouflage uniforms kidnapped about 30 Iraqis in Baghdad on Thursday and the new U.S. operational commander said more needed to be done to curb violence in the Iraqi capital.
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Frightened foreign workers for non-governmental organizations were thinking of leaving Iraq last week after kidnappers seized female aid staff in their office in broad daylight, marking a dangerous evolution in an escalating hostage crisis.
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Some 200 demonstrators, many of them handicapped, protest the kidnapping of Iraqi CARE director Margaret Hassan in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Oct. 25, 2004.
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Two Americans and a Briton were kidnapped at gunpoint from their smart Baghdad home, as the two main powers behind last year's controversial invasion became the latest victims in a five-month hostage crisis.
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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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Clerics differ on who was responsible for the kidnapping in Baghdad.
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"We are urgently looking into reports that a group of Westerners has been kidnapped."  SEVERAL Britons were feared kidnapped in Baghdad today on another bloody day for Iraq. via Edinburgh News
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The images coming out of the latest hostage crisis in Iraq &#151; capped by dramatic video of British captive Kenneth Bigley begging for his life &#151; have transfixed Britons, left governments looking helpless, and revived a classic dilemma about whether to negotiate with terrorists.
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Insurgents in Iraq have kidnapped dozens of people in their campaign to drive out coalition forces and hamper reconstruction:
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The foreign community&#39;s fragile sense of security took another blow Friday as news spread of the latest kidnapping of foreigners in the Iraqi capital
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Two Americans and a Briton have been seized by kidnappers from their home in central Baghdad, an Iraqi Ministry of Interior representative has told CNN.