Head of group that kidnapped UN workers caught by tip from his own ...
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Pakistan says the captured head of a militant group that kidnapped three UN workers was turned in by one of his own men.
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Men in military uniforms held up a United Nations vehicle in Kabul yesterday and abducted three election workers at gunpoint. It was the first kidnapping of UN or aid workers
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A prominent trade union leader, Mansour Osanlou, is seized by unidentified men from a bus in Tehran.
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A dual British-Irish national was one of three UN election workers kidnapped in Afghanistan, the Irish and British foreign ministries said.
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Gunmen kidnapped the head of Iraq&#039;s Olympic committee and at least 30 employees after storming their offices in Baghdad on Saturday, police said.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- CARE International said the director of its operation in Iraq has been kidnapped. CARE said Margaret Hassan -- said to be an Iraqi national -- was abducted Tuesday morning in Baghdad and it does not know why.
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Aytullah Gezmen, of Turkey. Kidnapped July 27 or 28. Worked for Bilintur, Turkish company providing laundry service for Jordanian firm in Iraq.
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Sudanese officials said the aid workers - three from the UN World Food Programme and five from the Sudanese Red Crescent â-ad been kidnapped by rebels waging an 18 month insurgency against the government.
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Three foreign United Nations employees kidnapped in Kabul are alive but may be killed if an attempt is made to rescue them, a spokesman for the group that has claimed responsibility told AFP by telephone.
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An employee with one of the world&#39;s largest relief and development groups has been kidnapped in Baghdad. Care International says its director in Iraq, Margaret Hassan, was captured this morning.
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ANKARA, Turkey  - One of Turkey's richest businessmen said he has been kidnapped in Iraq, appearing in a video aired Saturday alongside one of his weeping employees and saying they were being treated well by their captors.
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BAGHDAD, IRAQ - A previously unknown Islamic group claiming loyalty to a leader of al-Qaida took responsibility on Wednesday for the armed kidnapping Tuesday of two Italian aid workers.
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Kidnappers seized the British-Iraqi head of an international charity in Baghdad yesterday and later she was shown sitting anxiously and alone in a video broadcast by an Arabic television station.
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A British hotelier said Thursday he had been detained over the kidnapping of three U.N. election workers in Afghanistan and claimed to have helped negotiate their release from the clutches of Taliban-linked militants.
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Kidnappers have demanded $100,000 for the release of two U.S. missionaries seized on their way to church in Haiti's capital, a U.N. official said Thursday. The captors initially sought $500,000 but lowered the ransom demand during negotiations with the FBI, said Leslie Dallemand, chief of the U.N. peacekeeping mission's anti-kidnapping unit.
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The British-born head of CARE International's Iraq operations, Margaret Hassan, was kidnapped in Iraq, the aid organisation said in London.
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KABUL -- Three UN workers kidnapped in Afghanistan are in the hands of criminals, not Taliban-linked militants who have threatened to kill them, an Afghan official said Wednesday.