Westerners kidnapped in Afghanistan
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The first Westerners were kidnapped in Afghanistan yesterday when three UN election officials were bundled into a car by gunmen who ran their vehicle off the road in the capital Kabul.
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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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Three foreigners helping to organize  Afghanistan's first presidential election were kidnapped by a  gang of armed men in Kabul on Thursday, triggering a huge  manhunt by Afghan security and international peacekeepers.
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Two Chinese engineers and their Pakistani security guard were kidnapped early today by unidentified men in Pakistan&#39;s South Waziristan tribal area, bordering Afghanistan, where security forces have launched operations to flush out hiding Al-Qaeda militants
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Islamic militants claim they are holding three foreign election workers kidnapped Thursday from a UN vehicle in the Afghan capital of Kabul.
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Armed men kidnapped two Germans and two Afghans working on a dam project in central Afghanistan, police said Thursday.
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Two Chinese engineers were kidnapped in a remote Pakistani tribal region near the border with Afghanistan, officials said.
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Unknown gunmen abducted two international and two Afghan employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross near Kabul, Afghan officials said Thursday.
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A Briton and two other foreigners helping to organise Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election have been kidnapped by a gang of armed men in the capital, prompting a huge
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Three foreign election workers were  kidnapped by armed men in the Afghan capital Kabul on Thursday,  government officials said.
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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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A UN election worker with dual British and Irish nationality was among three foreigners kidnapped in Afghanistan today. The three were seized at gunpoint in the capital Kabul this morning sparking fears of Iraq-style atrocities.
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KABUL, Sept. 24 -- Italian commandos, aided by other NATO forces and aircraft, rescued two kidnapped Italian intelligence operatives Monday in a daring ambush and gun battle that left at least nine of the captors dead in western Afghanistan.
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Three foreign election workers were kidnapped by armed men in the Afghan capital Kabul on Thursday, government sources and election commission officials said.
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ISLAMABAD, Oct. 9. - Two Chinese engineers and their Pakistani security guard were kidnapped earlier today by unidentified men in Pakistanâs South Waziristan tribal area, bordering Afghanistan, where security
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(Kabul, Afghanistan-AP) Oct. 31, 2004 - Arab television has played a video that apparently shows three foreign election workers kidnapped in Afghanistan.
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KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 14 -- A Turkish engineer and two Afghans were apparently kidnapped Tuesday in an area of eastern Afghanistan where bandits and insurgents from the Taliban and other Islamic extremist groups operate, officials said.