Wife pleads with husband&#39;s captors
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The wife of an American hostage in Iraq has pleaded for his captors to open talks after Islamic militants demanding the release of female prisoners in Iraq beheaded another American captive.
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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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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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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A weeping British hostage was shown pleading for help between the bars of a makeshift cage in a video that surfaced Wednesday, a sobering reminder of the grim reality for at least 18 foreign captives still held by Iraqi militants.    On Thursday, U.S...
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BAGHDAD The families of an American and a British engineer being held hostage by a militant group pleaded Tuesday for officials to help get the men released hours after the group beheaded an American.
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The husband of charity chief Margaret Hassan, kidnapped at gunpoint in Baghdad, has made an emotional plea for her release. &quot;I would like to tell the kidnappers that we are in the holy month of Ramadan and
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The wife of British hostage Kenneth Bigley has begged his captors to show mercy and set him free. Sombat, who has been married to the civil engineer for seven years, said he is an ordinary, hard-working family man.
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BAGHDAD - Tahseen Ali Hassan pleaded with kidnappers Thursday to release his wife, the director of the aid agency CARE International in Iraq.
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The wife of one of three construction workers taken hostage in Iraq pleaded for her husband's freedom, saying their 13-year-old daughter "misses her father very much."
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A British hostage appeared on a video posted on an Islamic Web site Wednesday weeping and pleading for his life as Iraq's leader and U.S. officials crushed reports that a high-profile female Iraqi weapons scientist could be released from jail soon &#151; as demanded by the kidnappers.
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The distraught mother of a three-year-old British girl taken hostage in southern Nigeria said Saturday her captors had asked for a ransom, as security agents intensified efforts to secure the toddler&#39;s release.
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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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LONDON -- A videotape broadcast yesterday showed a British hostage in Iraq shackled in a cage and wearing an orange jumpsuit, pleading with Prime Minister Tony Blair to help save his life and accusing him of not doing enough to secure his freedom.
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Her eyes puffy from hours of crying, Sombat Bigley wept as she appeared in front of cameras yesterday to plead for the life of her husband.
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As Mrs Hassan`s kidnappers maintained their silence, her husband made another plea to the group yesterday to free her &quot;in the name of Islam&quot;.
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The wife of Jack Hensley, one of three Westerners kidnapped from their residence in Baghdad on Thursday, made a personal plea to the kidnappers to free her husband, saying he wanted to help the Iraqi people.
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The kidnappers of a Northern Ireland woman in Afghanistan have again extended the deadline for their demands to be met. Annetta Flanigan from County Armagh and her United Nations colleagues, Filipino Angelito