US says won&#39;t bow to kidnappers
113500
and &quot;Mrs Anthrax&quot; by US forces, would not be released soon. &quot;The two women are in legal and. including the two women, remained in US legal custody.
143100
The brother of a British hostage being held in Iraq accused the United States on Thursday of sabotaging efforts to spare the man&#39;s life.
2206
Australian Prime Minister John Howard said on Tuesday that Australia will not make concessions with kidnappers of two Australians if the hostage-taking information is confirmed.
298747
The US denies that a female prisoner in Iraq is to be freed, as a British hostage's family awaits news of his fate.
20023
Iraq&#39;s foreign minister says his country is doing what it can to secure the release of two Americans and a British national taken hostage in Baghdad Thursday, but will not give in to kidnappers&#39; demands.
49221
The government is ready to listen to a message from the kidnappers of Kenneth Bigley but will not enter into negotiations with them, the foreign secretary, Jack Straw, said today.
363271
US diplomats refused yesterday to take down their offices&#39; trimmings of Santa Claus, candy canes and white lights on palm trees, in spite of Cuba&#39;s demand that they remove decorations
622939
The latest abduction of a foreigner in Afghanistan - a Turkish engineer working on a US-sponsored road project - ended when the kidnappers killed him, apparently so he wouldn&#39;t slow them down with police hot on their trail.
667974
KABUL - Taleban-linked militants threatening to kill three UN hostages are accusing the United States of hampering their release, although an Afghan official says a ransom demand is the main stumbling block.
768309
WASHINGTON, 29  - The United States refused to offer any praise to Cuba for releasing three jailed dissidents who had been imprisoned for more than a year, maintaining they should never have been arrested in the first place.
540553
BAGHDAD - The United States disputed a senior Iraqi official&#39;s statement yesterday that a decision had been made to free a high-profile Iraqi woman prisoner.
50125
Insurgent commanders in the Iraqi city of Falluja say they are not holding hostage Margaret Hassan, an aide worker who holds British and Iraqi citizenship, and condemned her kidnapping.
401324
Non-Iraqi prisoners captured by US forces on the Iraq battlefield are not entitled to the protections afforded by the Geneva Conventions, according to a recent legal opinion from the Justice Department.
71393
Criminals rather than Islamic militants are holding three kidnapped U.N. workers, an official said Wednesday, dismissing the claims of a Taliban-linked group threatening to kill the trio unless the United States frees 26 jailed comrades.
419568
BAGHDAD, Iraq  Saying their rebel Shiite cleric opposes abductions, top aides to Muqtada al-Sadr appealed to kidnappers to free a Western journalist they are threatening to kill unless US forces ...
582977
BRIGHTON, England  - Britain appealed on Thursday  to kidnappers holding a hostage in Iraq to make contact -- but  still ruled out negotiations or ransom payment.
483853
The United States is opposed to negotiations with hostage-takers who abducted three United Nations staffers in Afghanistan last month, US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said.