Report: Iraqi Official's In-Law Abducted
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Militants said Wednesday they had kidnapped the brother-in-law of Iraqi Defense Minister Hazem Shaalan and demanded he end all military operations in the holy city of Najaf, according to a video, Al-Jazeera television reported. The authenticity of the video could not immediately be verified.
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A group linked to Iraq's al Qaeda said   on Monday it had abducted two U.S. soldiers south of Baghdad,   according to a statement posted on the Internet.
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Gunmen have abducted three relatives of  Iraq's prime minister from outside their Baghdad home, the  interim Iraqi government said on Wednesday.
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BAGHDAD : Six staff of a Saudi Arabian company, including one US citizen, an Asian and at least three Iraqis, were kidnapped from their offices in Baghdad, police and a lawyer for the company told AFP.
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Gunmen kidnapped an American, a Nepali and two Arab men from their Baghdad office on Monday, police said. &quot;They stormed the villa with automatic rifles and rocket- propelled grenades.
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 24 -- Gunmen stopped a minibus driving north of Baghdad on Monday and abducted 13 Iraqi civilians inside, Iraqi police reported. The mass kidnapping was a renewed tactic that has grown increasingly rare as violence has ebbed in Iraq.
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seized in Baghdad were abducted west of the capital, an Egyptian diplomat in Baghdad said on Friday. and the abduction of two Italian aid workers from their office earlier this month.
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An Islamic militant group in Iraq has kidnapped a US national of Lebanese origin who works as a manager at Baghdad airport, Qatar-based al-Jazeera satellite channel reported on Friday.
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The United States on Thursday confirmed that two Americans and one Briton were abducted in Iraq&#39;s capital Baghdad. &quot;I can confirm for you the US embassy has informed us
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An Iraqi security official said gunmen abducted a Lebanese-American contractor who worked with the US Army in Iraq. Officials said gunmen snatched him when he answered the door at his Baghdad home overnight.
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Two Americans and a Briton were abducted from their home in a plush Baghdad district at dawn, in the latest blow in Iraq's five-month-old foreign hostage crisis, the interior ministry said.
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BAGHDAD, Nov. 10- Gunmen kidnapped a first cousin of interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi and two other members of his extended family from their Baghdad home on Tuesday, an Allawi spokesman said Wednesday morning.
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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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A man believed to be a US contractor of Lebanese origin has been seized by gunmen in Baghdad overnight, Iraqi police have reported.
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At least 14 Iraqi police officers were missing and feared abducted after an al Qaeda-linked group on Friday showed pictures of 18 men it said were kidnapped to avenge the alleged rape of a woman last month.
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Gunmen kidnapped three members of Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi&#39;s family, a spokesman for the Iraqi interim government said on Wednesday.
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Kidnappers have released Sunday the cousin of Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, Sky News reported. Ghazi Allawi, 75, was seized by gunmen from his Baghdad home on November 9, along with his wife and his pregnant daughter-in-law.