Italian hostages possibly sold to Zarqawi group
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ROME - Iraqi kidnappers may have sold two Italian women hostages to militants tied to al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Deputy Iraqi Foreign Minister Hamid al-Bayati has been quoted as saying.
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A statement attributed to the Al-Qaeda group of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi on an Islamist website called for the release of kidnapped British aid worker Margaret Hassan in Iraq &quot;unless she is proven to be a collaborator.&quot;
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An unknown militant group holding Iraqi-British hostage Margaret Hassan in Iraq has threatened to turn her over to a group led by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi if its demands are not met, Al Jazeera television says.
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A MESSAGE claiming to be from a group led by the Islamic militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has called for the release of Margaret Hassan, the British charity worker held hostage in Iraq.
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Two Italian women aid workers held hostage in Iraq have been released and handed over to the Italian charge d'affaires in Baghdad, Al Jazeera television said on Tuesday.
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An unknown militant group holding Iraqi-British hostage Margaret Hassan in Iraq has threatened to turn her over to a group led by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi if Britain does not quit Iraq, Al Jazeera says.
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Several snags including over a ransom have held up the handing over of British hostage Kenneth Bigley to another group in Iraq, said an editor of a Kuwaiti newspaper, citing Iraq militant sources.
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DUBLIN : The kidnappers of aid worker Margaret Hassan threatened to hand her over to the group led by Iraqi militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in a new video which also reportedly showed the British-Irish woman in a distressed state.
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LONDON, Oct 4  British Iraq hostage Kenneth Bigley may have been handed over to a new group, his brother Paul said today.
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Two Italian female aid workers abducted in Iraq may be in the hands of Al-Qaeda's number two operative Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi.
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The Kuwaiti daily which predicted the release of two Italian hostages in Iraq said on Wednesday that the captors had originally demanded a &#36;5 million ransom but settled for &#36;1 million in the end.
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Italy is investigating whether an Italian journalist abducted in Iraq was seized by insurgents or by ordinary criminals hoping for a ransom, a top Foreign Ministry official said Sunday.
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The release of two Italian aid workers in Iraq has raised hopes other hostages may soon be freed, but reports that a large ransom was paid may only feed the burgeoning hostage crisis.
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A militant group claimed in a Web posting Thursday that two Italian women taken hostage in Iraq had been killed, a day after another group made a similar statement.
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Con macabra puntualita&#39;, il gruppo del terrorista giordano-palestinese Abu Musab al Zarqawi, ha annunciato in serata di aver sgozzato anche il secondo dei dei tre ostaggi occidentali rapiti giovedi&#39; scorso a Baghdad, l&#39; americano Jack Hensley, che proprio
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Two Italian soldiers are believed to have been kidnapped while on patrol in western Afghanistan, Italy's Defence Ministry said on Sunday.
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The Arab television station Al-Jazeera has broadcast a videotape purportedly showing a British and two American hostages being held in Iraq by a militant group led by a suspected ally of the al-Qaida terror network, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.