More hostages taken as US fears grow
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A Briton and two Americans became the latest foreigners to be kidnapped in Iraq yesterday when gunmen burst into their house in central Baghdad and dragged them off into a van.
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Los Angeles Times - BAGHDAD &#8212; Militants said Tuesday that they had beheaded a second American hostage in as many days and threatened to kill a British captive, increasing pressure on President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair to confront a recent wave of kidnappings of foreigners in the Iraqi capital.
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Militants piled more pressure on Washington's military allies in Iraq on Thursday, seizing an Iraqi-Polish woman and holding a Japanese man under threat of death.
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Seven hostages, including two Italian aid workers, were released by two different groups yesterday. It was the second day in a row that foreign hostages were freed, raising hopes for at least 18 others still in captivity.
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The US consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, has been attacked by gunmen, four guards have been killed and 18 hostages have been taken, security sources say.
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Two Americans and a Briton were kidnapped from their residence in the Mansour district of Baghdad by unknown gunmen this morning, the US embassy there said in an e-mailed statement from the Iraqi capital.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Kidnappers threatened in a videotape yesterday to slit the throats of three civilians â-wo Americans and a Briton â -ess authorities released female prisoners from two US-run prisons in Iraq.
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Iraq&#39;s hostage crisis continued unabated yesterday, with one group of insurgents claiming that it had killed 11 Iraqi national guardsmen, another saying it had abducted
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Al-Qaida has been threatening, and many people have expected, another terrorist attack against the United States before Tuesday&#39;s elections.
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A team of kidnappers grabbed two Americans and a Briton in a dawn raid on their home on a leafy Baghdad street Thursday - a bold abduction that underlines the increasing danger
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Two were kidnapped from their Baghdad office while four others were abducted west of Baghdad, an Egyptian diplomat said. The attacks follow the kidnapping of two Americans and a Briton last week from their
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BAGHDAD: Iraqâs hostage crisis deepened as militants who beheaded two Americans let a Briton make a desperate videotaped plea for his life, while other extremist groups claimed on Thursday to have executed two women Italian aid workers.
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BAGHDAD, 26 December 2004 - The US military said yesterday it has captured two senior aides of Iraqâs most feared militant group as police uncovered more bodies under the rubble a day after a suicide bomber blew up a gas tanker in an upscale Baghdad
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Iraq&#39;s hostage crisis continued Thursday, with one group of insurgents saying it had killed 11 Iraqi national guardsmen, another saying it had kidnapped a Polish worker
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Insurgents threatened to kill two Americans and a Briton unless the United States freed Iraqi women prisoners, Al Jazeera said Saturday, and a suicide car bomb killed
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The US military said on Saturday it has captured two senior terrorists linked to Iraq&#39;s most feared Islamic militant group as police uncovered more bodies under the rubble after a day after a suicide bomber blew up a gas tanker in an upscale Baghdad
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The US military said tonight it had captured two senior terrorists linked to Iraqâs most feared Islamic militant group. The arrests came as police uncovered more bodies under the rubble a day after a suicide