5 Britons kidnapped; 10 GIs die in Iraq
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Gunmen in police uniforms and driving vehicles used by security forces kidnapped five Britons from an Iraqi Finance Ministry office Tuesday, and a senior Iraqi official said the radical Shiite Mahdi Army militia was suspected.
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Five out of 13 Ethiopians believed to have been kidnapped with five Britons in the remote Afar region have been found by the security forces, the state news agency said.
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Britain will do all it can to help free five UK citizens kidnapped in Baghdad, Prime Minister Tony Blair says.
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Up to 15 British military personnel were killed on Sunday in Iraq when a Royal Air Force transport plane crashed, Britain's biggest single loss of life since it joined the U.S.-led invasion, Britain's Sky TV reported, quoting the defense ministry.
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As many as 15 British military personnel died when the transport plane they were travelling in crashed in central Iraq, military sources said.
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Arabic language al-Jazeera television is reporting that militants in Iraq have taken 10 more people hostage. Video footage broadcast Thursday shows three hostages, who were not identified, and two masked men pointing guns at the captives.
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An Iraqi militant group says it has seized 10 hostages all of whom work for an electronics firm, reports say. Briton Kenneth Bigley, 62, is still being held in Iraq, as are two French journalists.
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A British hostage pleaded for his government to save his life in a new video aired Wednesday on Arab television after the release of two Italian women and 10 other hostages. In Baghdad, U.S. and Iraqi forces raided suspected insurgent hideouts, sparking clashes along a street in the heart of the capital.
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More than 1,000 British and Danish troops stormed five houses Friday in southern Iraq, using ground forces, boats, helicopters and jets in a raid that detained five Iraqis and confiscated a large cache of weapons, a spokesman said.
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Security forces in Pakistan killed five kidnappers as they tried to rescue two Chinese engineers. Officials say one of the hostages died during the rescue while his companion received minor injuries.
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Iraqi militant group Army of Ansar  al-Sunna said on Thursday it had abducted and killed a Briton  and a Swede in the central Iraqi city of Beiji, according to an  Internet statement.
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Gunmen abducted five foreigners Friday in Nigeria's restive southern oil heartland, with at least three of them seized and spirited away in a speedboat, officials said.
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BAGHDAD : Kidnapped British aid worker Margaret Hassan pleaded for London to save her life by scrapping a plan to redeploy Britain&#39;s troops in Iraq, as seven people died in US air and artillery strikes on rebel-held Fallujah.
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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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A US citizen and five other staff of a Saudi trading firm were kidnapped in Baghdad on Monday, while a deputy governor was shot dead, plunging Iraq deeper into crisis.
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Gunmen in police uniforms kidnapped a group of Westerners from a government building in Baghdad on Tuesday and eight U.S. soldiers were reported killed, making May the deadliest month this year for the U.S. military.
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Five Britons with diplomatic connections were missing feared kidnapped in Ethiopia last night amid security concerns.Comment