Australian man 'holds hostages'
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A man barricades himself and possibly a number of hostages in a hotel room in Australia, police say.
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Iraqi militants who kidnapped an Australian reporter in Baghdad and threatened to kill him âGoogledâ his name on the internet to investigate his work before releasing him unharmed, the journalistâs executive producer said today.
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An Australian journalist was seized by militants in Iraq for nearly 24 hours, but then released unharmed.
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A man claiming to be armed with a handgun was holding employees hostage at a McDonald's restaurant on Monday, police said.
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Two men and a woman are held hostage over night by a gang of up to 10 armed and masked men.
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A detained Australian terrorist suspect had multiple meetings with Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden before returning home as a "sleeper" agent for the radical Islamic group, prosecutors alleged.
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Australia has vowed never to bow to terrorists after an unconfirmed claim that two Australians have been taken hostage in Iraq and will be executed unless Canberra withdraws its troops from the country.
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Australia's PM says he will not negotiate with terrorists who claim to have taken two Australians hostage.
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Australia, unable to verify a report that two of its citizens had been taken hostage in Iraq, said on Wednesday it had sent a logistics team to the country and still was trying to account for all of its nationals there.
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Police were holding eight people on  Tuesday, at least four of them foreign doctors, over a  suspected al Qaeda plot against Britain that triggered a  manhunt reaching as far as Australia.
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Prime Minister John Howard said Tuesday that he would not withdraw troops from Iraq as demanded by militants who claim to have taken two Australians hostage and threatened to execute them within 24 hours.
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Prime Minister John Howard stood firm on Tuesday against withdrawing troops from Iraq after unconfirmed reports two Australians were taken hostage and would be killed within 24 hours unless Canberra pulls out.
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BAGHDAD - An armed Islamic group kidnapped two Australians and two East Asians in the northern Iraqi city of Samarra on Monday, the Dubai-based television broadcaster Al-Arabiya reported.
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(Sydney, Australia-AP) Oct. 20, 2004 - Australia&#39;s government says it&#39;s working with the British and Iraqi governments to help win the release of an aid worker kidnapped in Baghdad.
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ELEANOR HALL: After holding Iraqi citizen and CARE Australia worker, Margaret Hassan for two weeks, her captors have now threatened to hand her over to al-Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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An Australian held by the United States in Guantanamo Bay has claims he was tortured during interrogation in Egypt and abused while in US custody in Pakistan.
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THE man accused of commanding the Australian embassy bombing was briefly detained by Indonesian police last year but released because they did not recognise the terror fugitive.