Relatives plead for freedom of Sri Lankan hostage in Iraq
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Colombo, Oct 31 (PTI) Relatives of a Sri Lankan truck driver taken hostage in Iraq today pleaded to his abductors to release him, saying he had been forced to work there by his Kuwaiti employer.
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The family of a British civil engineer who was kidnapped while working in Iraq called on Friday for the captors to release him, stressing that they were &quot;devastated&quot; by the kidnapping.
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The family of Kenneth Bigley, the British engineer who was kidnapped by gunmen from his house in Baghdad this week, has issued a desperate plea for his safe return.
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Minority Tamils in Sri Lankan capital Colombo appeal to government for protection after a spate of abductions.
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THE elderly mother and the wife of the British hostage in Iraq begged for his life yesterday in emotional and distressing appeals days after his captors beheaded two Americans.
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By Gideon Long BAGHDAD  - Relatives pleaded for the lives ofeight Chinese hostages in Iraq as a deadline set by theircaptors neared on Thursday, and the U.S. military said aBrazilian was also missing following an insurgent attack.
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As if the pressure on Iraq&#39;s prime minister were not already enough, three of his close relatives have now been abducted and threatened with death.
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AN IRAQI militant group is demanding that Jakarta release hardline cleric Abu Bakar Bashir in return for the freedom of two Indonesian woman hostages.
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An Islamist group has freed two women relatives of Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi but is still holding his male cousin hostage, Arab satellite television Al Jazeera said on Sunday.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A weeping British hostage was shown pleading for help between the bars of a makeshift cage in a video that surfaced Wednesday, a sobering reminder of the grim reality for at least 18 foreign captives still held by Iraqi militants.    There is wide speculation that ransoms were paid for the freedom of a dozen hostages, including two Italian aid workers...
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The Palestinian family of a Jordanian hostage threatened with death in Iraq appealed on Sunday for his release, saying he was a father of seven who did not collaborate with Iraq's "occupier."
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The family of a British hostage held in Iraq has appealed to Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi to help secure his release. The brother of hostage Kenneth Bigley spoke to the Libyan leader&#39;s son, Saif Gadhafi, and asked him to get his father involved.
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KATHMANDU : Relatives of 12 Nepalese workers missing in Iraq were desperately seeking information after an Islamist website showed alleged pictures of them in captivity.
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The wife of Jack Hensley, one of three Westerners kidnapped from their residence in Baghdad on Thursday, made a personal plea to the kidnappers to free her husband, saying he wanted to help the Iraqi people.
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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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COLOMBO : Relatives of Sri Lankan truck driver Dinesh Dharmendran Rajaratnam appealed to his captors in Iraq to free him, saying he had been forced to work there by his Kuwaiti employer.
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THEY have been riven with terror as the world watches the plight of Ken Bigley. But yesterday his family came together to reach out to his captors with emotional pleas for mercy.