Group to Kill U.S. Hostage if U.S. Doesn't Quit Najaf
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Iraqi militants who said they captured a  U.S. journalist last week have threatened to kill him if U.S.  forces do not pull out from the holy city of Najaf, Al Jazeera  television reported on Thursday.
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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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An Iraqi militant group has threatened to  behead a Turkish hostage within three days unless the United  States releases all Iraqi prisoners and Turkish nationals leave  Iraq, Al Arabiya television said on Monday.
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A little-known Iraqi insurgent group said  on Tuesday it was holding a U.S. soldier and threatened to kill  him within 72 hours if Iraqi prisoners were not released,  according to an Internet statement.
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A previously unknown group has threatened to kill 18 captured Iraqi soldiers if authorities do not release an aide to Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr within 48 hours.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - An Iraqi peace delegation urged a  radical Shi'ite cleric Tuesday to call off his uprising in the  city of Najaf where U.S. troops pounded militia positions near  the country's holiest Islamic sites.
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Aides to radical Shi&#39;ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr say militants holding a US journalist hostage in Iraq will release him soon. The aides said they have been in contact with a group calling itself the Martyrs
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A hitherto unknown Islamist group has threatened to attack U.S.-led troops and American citizens in Iraq if foreign forces do not leave the holy city of Najaf in 48 hours, according to an Internet statement posted on Monday.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - If U.S. and Iraqi troops launch a  major assault on radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's militants,  they will have to pass through sniper-infested streets to root  them out of a mosque they can't afford to harm.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Iraq's government warned Shi'ite  cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Thursday he would face a military  strike within hours unless he ended an uprising, disarmed his  militia and quit a shrine in the city of Najaf.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq  Top aides to firebrand Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called on kidnappers Thursday to free a Western journalist they are threatening to kill unless US forces withdraw from the holy city of Najaf.
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NAJAF, Iraq - With U.S. forces bombing militant positions and gunbattles raging, radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his fighters to hand control of a revered Najaf shrine to top Shiite religious authorities but refused to disband his militia...
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At least one person is killed apparently heeding a top Iraqi cleric's call to march on Najaf, where a stand-off continues.
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The group of Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, which has claimed the gruesome killing of foreign hostages in Iraq, reportedly threatened to execute two Americans and a Briton it is holding unless Iraqi women prisoners are freed within 48 hours.
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NAJAF, Iraq - Sporadic gunfire and explosions boomed through Najaf on Thursday despite a peace deal in which radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr agreed to disarm his militiamen and pull them out of a revered Shiite shrine they've been taking refuge in.    As clashes in Najaf continued, Arab television station Al-Jazeera aired a video Thursday showing a militant group that called itself the Martyrs Brigade vowing to kill a missing Western journalist if U.S...
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An unknown militant group holding Iraqi-British hostage Margaret Hassan in Iraq has threatened to turn her over to a group led by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi if Britain does not quit Iraq, Al Jazeera says.
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Iraqis meeting to pick an interim national assembly agreed to send a delegation to the holy city of Najaf today in an attempt to convince a radical Shiite cleric to end a bloody conflict with U.S. troops.