U.S. Rules Out Deals with Afghan Kidnappers
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A senior U.S. official said on Wednesday deals should not be done with hostage-takers ahead of the latest deadline set by Afghan Islamic militants who have threatened to kill three kidnapped U.N. workers.
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Afghan militants holding three UN workers hostage began talks with the government and the United Nations on Sunday and the kidnappers have dropped some of their demands, a militant spokesman said.
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The Pentagon denied on Tuesday that  it had sanctioned the activities of three Americans on trial in  Afghanistan on charges of imprisoning and torturing Afghans.
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A top US envoy visiting Afghanistan has said there should be no negotiations with kidnappers of three UN workers. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said the US believed talks would only &quot;encourage more&quot; abductions.
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The Bush administration has decided that some non-Iraqi prisoners captured by American forces in Iraq are not entitled to the protection of the Geneva Conventions, the New York Times reported Tuesday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Kidnappers threatening to kill three foreign UN workers in Afghanistan complained yesterday that the government had yet to free 26 Taliban prisoners as part of a deal they said it made to secure the trio's release.
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The United States on Wednesday rebuffed a recent offer by Cuba for talks and said Havana had become even more hard-line since Raul Castro stepped in for his ailing brother Fidel Castro.
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Three UN workers abducted almost three weeks ago in Afghanistan are probably being held by criminals and not by a Taliban splinter group that has threatened to kill them, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday.
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Some of the 26 Taliban members Afghan militants have demanded freed as part of a deal to release three kidnapped UN workers could be in the US military jail
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Three UN workers kidnapped in Kabul are probably not being held by Islamic militants, the Afghan authorities say.
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FRANKFURT - US officials have told Germany that they will not extradite 13 purported CIA agents in the alleged kidnapping of a German citizen. The Bush administration told Berlin it would not hand over the 13, and the Justice Ministry decided not to formally request their arrest, a ministry spokeswoman said yesterday. The group is accused of wrongfully imprisoning and ...
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Kidnappers of three UN workers in Afghanistan said on Wednesday the government had agreed to terms for their release, despite indications from Afghan and US officials that a compromise was not possible.
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The White House tried to convince  conservatives, including a top aide, on Thursday that a  breakthrough deal with North Korea would not free Pyongyang  from a list of countries that sponsor terrorism anytime soon.
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Afghanistan&#39;s Interior Ministry says the militant group claiming to have kidnapped three UN workers is not, in fact, the group holding the captives.
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An Afghan official said criminals were holding a British woman and two other kidnapped United Nations workers, not the Taliban-linked group that has threatened to kill them unless its jailed comrades are freed.
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The State Department on Monday rejected an offer of talks with Raul Castro, Cuba's acting president, saying it saw no point in a dialogue with what it called the Caribbean island's "dictator-in-waiting."
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Three American counterterrorism vigilantes on trial for allegedly running a private jail in Afghanistan denied charges they tortured prisoners and accused authorities Monday of withholding evidence that would prove they were working with U.S. knowledge.