Raids in Baghdad Follow Kidnappings
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American and Iraqi troops conducted raids in Baghdadâs Sadr City a day after five British citizens were abducted.
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Several Westerners, including four Britons, are reportedly kidnapped from a finance ministry building in Baghdad.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen kidnapped two Americans and a Briton from a house in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood at dawn Thursday, a brazen attack that brought to eight the number of Western civilians held hostage in Iraq.    Ten assailants in a minivan pulled up a tree-lined street in the al-Mansour district - home to many embassies and foreign companies - and snatched the three from their walled, two-story house, said Col...
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Two Italian woman aid workers and two  Iraqis were kidnapped in broad daylight in central Baghdad  Tuesday in a brazen raid that will alarm foreigners already  edgy from widespread kidnappings.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen abducted six Egyptians and four Iraqis working for Iraq's mobile phone company, seizing two in a bold raid on the firm's Baghdad office and the others outside the capital, officials said Friday, the latest in a string of kidnappings that have underscored the country's fragile security.    Also Friday, mortars exploded near the Italian Embassy in Baghdad, slightly wounding three Iraqis, the Foreign Ministry in Rome said...
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Gunmen seized two Egyptians in an  overnight raid on their office in Baghdad, the third in a new  series of audacious operations to kidnap foreigners in the  Iraqi capital this month.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces backed by helicopters swept into Baghdad's Sadr City Shiite slum in a dark-of-night raid Tuesday that netted seven militiamen, including one believed to know the whereabouts of an American soldier kidnapped nearly a month ago.
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U.S. troops raided a Baghdad hotel Tuesday night and detained about 10 people. A U.S.-funded radio station said the group included six members of an Iranian delegation here to negotiate contacts with the Iraqis.
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U.S. and Iraqi soldiers searched Baghdad on Wednesday for five kidnapped Britons who Iraq's foreign minister said had probably been taken by a Shi'ite militia.
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Gunmen in camouflage uniforms kidnapped about 30 Iraqis from an industrial area in central Baghdad on Thursday, police sources said.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi police said two foreigners â-ncluding an American â - four Iraqis were abducted Monday in a deadly raid at an office in western Baghdad.
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Gunmen raided a building to seize two Egyptians during the night in Baghdad, in the third in a new series of audacious operations to kidnap foreigners in the capital this month.
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U.S. forces said they killed 49 gunmen in fierce fighting in Baghdad on Sunday during a raid to capture an Iranian-linked kidnap cell leader suspected of abducting U.S.-led coalition soldiers and other foreigners.
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Machinegun fire rained from U.S. helicopters in central Baghdad on Friday as U.S. and Iraqi troops clashed with gunmen during a raid to seize militants, police and witnesses said.
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(BAGHDAD, Iraq) - Iraqi officials say shots were apparently fired as an American and three other people were kidnapped in Baghdad on Monday.
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BAGHDAD, May 27 -- U.S. forces raided an al-Qaeda in Iraq hide-out northeast of Baghdad on Sunday and rescued 41 people who had been kidnapped by the insurgent group, some as long as four months ago, a U.S. military spokesman said.
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Gunmen in camouflage uniforms kidnapped about 30 Iraqis in a daylight attack in Baghdad on Thursday, highlighting the threat from sectarian death squads which a top U.S. general said must be reined in.