Iraqi Kidnappers Demand Release of Militant Indonesian Cleric
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Kidnappers holding two Indonesian women hostages in Iraq are demanding the release of a militant cleric accused of leading a terrorist group in Southeast Asia.
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Japan sought international and Iraqi help for a Japanese man held hostage in Iraq on Thursday, less than 24 hours before a deadline set by his captors to behead him unless Japan withdraws its troops.
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A radical cleric seized by security forces in Pakistan on Thursday urged armed militants still holed up inside a mosque besieged by government troops to end a two-day standoff.
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The family of hostage Kenneth Bigley are appealing for his release in Iraq as the threat of execution hangs over him. Mr Bigley and two Americans were seized in Baghdad on Thursday and threatened with death unless their abductors&#39; demands were met.
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An Iraqi militant group has threatened to  behead a Turkish hostage within three days unless the United  States releases all Iraqi prisoners and Turkish nationals leave  Iraq, Al Arabiya television said on Monday.
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Iraq's president calls for the release of an Iranian official detained by US forces in the country's Kurdish north.
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Militants have kidnapped two relatives of Iraqi Defense Minister Hazim al-Shalaan and demanded US forces leave the holy city of Najaf, Al Jazeera television reported Wednesday.
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The leader of Iraq's Chaldean Christian community urges US forces to free ex-deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz.
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The family of a Japanese man being held  hostage in Iraq begged for his life on Friday after the expiry  of a deadline set by his captors, who have threatened to behead  him unless Japan withdrew its troops.
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The militant group al-Qaida in Iraq purportedly called Friday for the release of the kidnapped executive of the CARE charity, Margaret
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Authorities on Friday called for the release of two Indonesian women held hostage by Islamic militants in Iraq, expressing hope that the kidnapping was ``a mistake&#39;&#39; since Indonesia&#39;s government never supported the war.
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The husband of Margaret Hassan, a British-Iraqi aid worker snatched by kidnappers on her way to work in Baghdad this week, appealed for her release on Thursday.
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The aid charity Care International has appealed to the captors of its Iraq director Margaret Hassan to release her.
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Muslim and Christian religious leaders in the hometown of a British hostage facing death in Iraq have appealed for his captors to free him.
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Japan&#39;s Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura has urged Islamic militants in Iraq to release a Japanese hostage, in an interview with the Arabic satellite network Al-Jazeera.
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BEIRUT: Relatives of a kidnapped member of Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi&#39;s family have begged her captors to release her saying she was pregnant, in a videotape aired by Lebanese satellite channel LBC yesterday.
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Prosecutors demand an eight-year jail term for radical cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir, accused of inciting the Bali bombs.