Hostage &#39;hunted house by house&#39;
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A dramatic picture emerged yesterday of the desperate last hours of Ken Bigley, who evaded his captors only to be hunted down and beheaded.
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One of Turkeyâs richest businessmen has been taken hostage in Iraq, writes Tom Pattinson. Kahraman Sadikoglu, a shipping magnate, was shown on a private Turkish television channel being questioned by kidnappers.
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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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IRAQI troops sweeping through Fallujah yesterday said they had come across &quot;hostage slaughter houses&quot; where people captured during a wave of abductions and beheadings had been held and killed by their militant kidnappers.
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LONDON There are reports that British hostage Kenneth Bigley was killed after he attempted to flee his captors in Iraq. A US official has said reports of an escape attempt are credible.
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The family of Iraq hostage Margaret Hassan faced an anxious wait today after her kidnappers threatened to hand her over to murderous Abu Musab al-Zarqawi if their demands were not met within 48 hours.
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An &#39;armed group&#39; has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of the director of an international charity in Iraq as she was being driven to work in Baghdad.
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Hassan, an aid worker, was kidnapped in Iraq last month. She was the director of CARE International in Iraq and had lived in Iraq for 30 years.
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US forces have found nearly 20 houses in the Iraqi city of Falluja where they believe people were tortured and where foreign hostages may have been killed, officers say.
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British, American and Iraqi authorities were trying last night to secure the freedom of Margaret Hassan, the Irish-born aid worker kidnapped in Baghdad early yesterday.
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âPlease help me. Please help me,â said a terrified Hassan, breaking down in tears and burying her face in a tissue. She said she might be killed like British hostage Kenneth Bigley, who was beheaded by his captors earlier this month.
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The fate of a British hostage kidnapped in Baghdad was looking increasingly perilous today, after his Muslim extremist captors threatened to kill him if their demands are not met.
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Armed intelligence officers raided the Amsterdam home of Paul Bigley, the brother of British hostage Ken Bigley, in the hunt for the leader of the Arab group believed to be holding him, a newspaper said.
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LONDON, United Kingdom -- The family of a British engineer held hostage in Iraq made a final desperate appeal to his captors Thursday to &quot;be merciful&quot;, as hopes for his safe release started to fade.
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A US citizen is among four people reported to have been kidnapped at gunpoint from their office in Baghdad. &quot;They stormed the villa with automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades,&quot; a police source told the Reuters agency.
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Iraqi forces fighting alongside US troops in Fallujah yesterday claimed to have found the houses in which civilian hostages were held by militants and beheaded in front of a camera.
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Roadblocks were set around the Afghanistan capital of Kabul today to search for a Northern Irish UN worker who was kidnapped with two colleagues.