Hostages Face Death in Iraq
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Several insurgent groups set deadlines  for killing more than a score of hostages in Iraq -- from a  trio of American and British workers to an entire squad of 18  Iraqi soldiers -- unless their various demands are met.
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The family of Dublin-born Iraqi aid worker Margaret Hassan believes she has been killed by hostage-takers.
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BAGHDAD - A militant Islamic group has killed three hostages in Iraq, a video posted on its website shows. The three men, identified as members of an Iraqi Kurdish group, were killed for helping the Americans, a statement accompanying the tape said.
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THE threat of execution hung over a Briton and two American hostages last night as their Islamic militant captors&#39; 48-hour deadline for the US-led coalition to free all Iraqi female detainees was due to expire.
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Militants piled more pressure on  Washington's military allies in Iraq on Thursday, seizing a  Polish woman and holding a Japanese man under threat of death.
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A purported statement by a previously unknown Iraqi group has threatened that two Italian hostages will be killed unless Italy begins withdrawing its forces from Iraq.
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The kidnappers of three foreign election workers in Afghanistan say they will kill their hostages by Wednesday if a list of demands is not met.
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Militants beheaded an American in Iraq and said two fellow civilian hostages would meet the same fate within 24 hours if Washington failed to accept their demands.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq promised Wednesday to release one of two high-profile women prisoners, but officials denied the decision was linked to demands by militants who purportedly killed two American hostages and threatened to execute a Briton with them unless all female Iraqi prisoners are let go.    Later in the day, authorities said a corpse was found with its decapitated head in a black plastic bag western Baghdad...
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BAGHDAD: A militant group headed by Al Qaeda ally Abu Musab Al Zarqawi warned early this morning it would kill a British hostage unless women prisoners in Iraq were freed.
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BAGHDAD : At least 21 Iraqis were killed and more than 100 wounded as fresh violence rocked Baghdad while fears grew for the fate of a British hostage whose two US colleagues were beheaded by their Islamist captors.
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BAGHDAD - Several insurgent groups in Iraq have set deadlines for killing hostages, from a trio of American and British workers to an entire squad of 18 Iraqi soldiers, unless demands are met.
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Insurgents in Iraq threatened Saturday  to kill 13 hostages, including two Americans and a Briton, and  staged car bomb attacks killing 23 people in Kirkuk and two  U.S. soldiers near Baghdad.
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Iraqi humanitarian worker Margaret Hassan, kidnapped a month ago in Baghdad, has been ruthlessly murdered by her captors - the first woman to be executed
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British hostage Kenneth Bigley has been killed by his captors in Iraq, his family confirm.
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Two Italian women aid workers were  reported killed in Iraq and a British hostage pleaded for his  life after the killing of two Americans, as the latest hostage  crisis put pressure on governments with troops in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD : Britain joined Iraq&#39;s US-backed government in facing down a chilling ultimatum to execute a British and two American hostages, as Islamists claimed the gruesome beheading of three Kurds.