Irish Govt Gives UK Hostage Bigley a Passport
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Ireland has granted British hostage Ken  Bigley a passport following calls from his family who hope that  stressing his Irish connections will persuade his kidnappers in  Iraq to release him.
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AN Iraqi cleric has said he met British hostage Ken Bigley, who is being held in Baghdad.
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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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Hopes for the release of Kenneth Bigley, the British hostage, rose yesterday after Dublin responded to requests from his kidnappers for proof of his Irish ancestry by issuing a passport in his name.
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HOPES for Ken Bigley's freedom rose yesterday after it was claimed he had been 'sold' to a less brutal gang of kidnappers.
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British hostage Ken Bigley was beheaded near Baghdad on Thursday afternoon, insurgent sources in the rebel-held town of Falluja said on Friday.
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London - An Iraqi militant group is expected to negotiate for the release of British hostage Kenneth Bigley, who was seized by Islamic fundamentalists in Baghdad two weeks ago, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported on Saturday.
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The brother of British hostage Ken Bigley said he had received information that he is still alive.
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DUBLIN  - A joint appeal for the release of Dublin-born humanitarian aid worker Margaret Hassan kidnapped in Iraq was issued by the Irish and Palestinian foreign ministers.
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British hostage Kenneth Bigley has been shown in a video screened on Al-Jazeera television.
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This week, a delegation of British Muslims returned from a high profile effort to secure the release of a British hostage, civilian Kenneth Bigley, held in Iraq since September 16th.
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British hostage Kenneth Bigley, kidnapped  10 days ago by gunmen in Iraq, is still alive, a London-based  Muslim activist who has good contacts with Islamist groups in  Iraq said on Sunday.
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By Damien McElroy, Sean Rayment and Aqeel Hussein in Fallujah. The British hostage Kenneth Bigley made a desperate bid for freedom through a farming district on the outskirts of Latifiya on Thursday.
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Yasser Arafat has promised to intercede on behalf of British hostage Ken Bigley, a senior Irish politician says. Michael Higgins, foreign affairs spokesman for the Labour Party in Dublin, said the Palestinian leader made his pledge in a letter to him.
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British hostage in Iraq Kenneth Bigley made a fresh plea Wednesday to British Prime Minister Tony Blair to work on securing his release.
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A delegation from the Muslim Council of Britain is travelling to Baghdad in an attempt to secure the release of hostage Kenneth Bigley.
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Kidnappers beheaded British hostage Kenneth Bigley after twice releasing videos in which he wept and pleaded with Prime Minister Tony Blair for his life. A U.S. official said Friday there was credible information that Bigley had tried to escape with the aid of one of his captors.