Australia tries to verify hostage claim by Iraqi militants
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CANBERRA - Prime Minister John Howardâs government was trying to account for all of its citizens in Iraq on Wednesday after militants claimed to have taken two Australians hostage and threatened to execute them.
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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.
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SYDNEY : Australia sent a special hostage rescue team to Iraq as it tried to unravel the mystery surrounding claims that Islamic militants have kidnapped two Australian security guards, officials said.
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SYDNEY -- Iraqi militants who kidnapped an Australian reporter in Baghdad and threatened to kill him Googled his name on the Internet to investigate his work before deciding to release him unharmed, the journalist's executive producer said yesterday.
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Two Macedonians taken hostage by a militant group were reported to have been beheaded in Iraq yesterday. However, the first Australian kidnap victim in the country was freed after 36 hours in captivity.
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Australian officials have been investigating unconfirmed reports that an Iraqi group has captured two Australian security workers in Iraq.
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Australia has vowed never to bow to terrorists after an unconfirmed claim that two Australians have been taken hostage in Iraq and will be executed unless Canberra withdraws its troops from the country.
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TWO Australians reportedly have been kidnapped in Iraq and threatened with execution within 24 hours unless John Howard withdraws Australian troops from the war-torn country.
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Two Australians and two East Asians have been kidnapped in Iraq, said a statement purportedly from the Islamic Secret Army handed out in the Sunni Muslim insurgent bastion of Samarra.
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Prime Minister John Howard's government said Wednesday it had tracked down all 225 of its citizens known to be in Iraq, raising hopes that a claim by militants who said they'd kidnapped two Australians was untrue.
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(Sydney, Australia-AP) Oct. 20, 2004 - Australia&#39;s government says it&#39;s working with the British and Iraqi governments to help win the release of an aid worker kidnapped in Baghdad.
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Australia says it is willing to talk to the kidnappers of a Baghdad-based aid worker to secure her release, but will not pay a ransom or change its Iraq policy.
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IT WAS a good sign that those claiming to have kidnapped two Australians in Iraq had not released the names of their alleged hostages, Prime Minister John Howard said today.
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Australia is investigating reports that two of its citizens have been taken hostage by militants in Iraq.
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The Australian government Tuesday denied that it had forged a secret deal with US Vice President Dick Cheney to secure the release of Guantanamo Bay terror detainee David Hicks.
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Italy sought on Thursday to play down the credibility of two claims for the murder of two Italian aid workers, both young women, taken hostage in Iraq, but failed to ease gnawing anguish over their fate.
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PARIS Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin of France said Sunday that he was unable to confirm the authenticity of a statement attributed to a militant group called the Islamic Army in Iraq that said it was releasing two French hostages, on condition