Al-Qaeda calls for release of British hostage
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Hopes for the kidnapped British aid worker Margaret Hassan rose yesterday after al-Qaeda terrorists in Iraq called for her release.
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Militants holding a Briton and two other foreign UN workers in Afghanistan have threatened to kill them unless all Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners are released from US
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The insurgent group al-Qaida in Iraq called Friday for the release of the kidnapped executive of the CARE charity, Margaret Hassan
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Al Qaeda-linked militants said they  killed a second American hostage on Tuesday and threatened to  kill a Briton unless women prisoners in Iraq were freed.
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Relatives and rights lawyers urged Prime  Minister Tony Blair on Tuesday to demand the release of all  Britons and other Europeans from the U.S. prison camp at  Guantanamo Bay when he meets President Bush this week.
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Baghdad - A chilling ultimatum to kill two American hostages and a Briton ticked down on Sunday, as Britain and Iraq said they were working closely on efforts to secure their release from al-Qaeda-linked militants.
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The leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq calls for kidnapping of Westerners, according to a web recording.
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Al Qaeda's leader in Iraq urged his   followers to capture foreign hostages to try to free a Muslim   cleric jailed in the United States, according to an Internet   audio tape issued on Thursday.
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A group led by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab  al-Zarqawi appealed on Friday to Iraqi militants holding an  Iraqi-British aid worker to free her unless she was proven to  be a spy, a message posted on an Islamic Web site said.
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Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has appealed for the release of the British hostage in Iraq Ken Bigley.
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Al Qaeda-linked militants said they had killed a second American hostage and threatened to kill a Briton unless women prisoners in Iraq were freed.
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An Iraqi group linked to al-Qaeda has threatened to kill two American hostages and one British captive within 48 hours unless Iraqi women prisoners are freed, al-Jazeera said.
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The family of Kenneth Bigley, the British hostage being held in Iraq, has made a direct appeal for his release to the militants who abducted the 62-year old-engineer.
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A council of Pakistani tribesmen sought on Tuesday to secure the release of two Chinese engineers taken hostage at the weekend by al Qaeda-linked militants near Pakistan&#39;s border with Afghanistan.
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MANAMA: Bahrain last night joined international efforts to secure the release of a British engineer held hostage in Iraq. Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr Mohammed Abdul Ghaffar urged the kidnappers to free Ken Bigley and other hostages soon.
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Baghdad - Two British Muslim leaders made an emotional appeal in Baghdad on Sunday for the release of British hostage Kenneth Bigley saying he was a &quot;victim like civilians in Fallujah.
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The British government Friday urgedthe kidnappers in Iraq to release Margaret Hassan, director of CARE International in the country, after her video was aired by Arabian-language TV channel al-Jazeera.