Old Tactic Returns as Gunmen Seize 13 Iraqis from Bus
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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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A NEW breed of kidnappers, described as &#39;strategic terrorists&#39;, in Iraq has led experts with experience of negotiating hostage releases to admit that lessons from the past may no longer apply.
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Baghdad - Rebels mounted fresh attacks in Iraq and kidnappers have seized an American-Lebanese contractor and four Jordanian drivers.
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BAGHDAD - Gunmen in Baghdad snatched 10 Sunni and Shi'ite tribal sheiks from their cars yesterday as they were heading home to Diyala Province after talks with the government on fighting Al Qaeda, and at least one was later found shot to death.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A group of Iraqi policemen returning from training has been kidnapped in the western part of the country, according to police.
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Gunmen in police uniforms and driving vehicles used by security forces kidnapped five Britons from an Iraqi Finance Ministry office Tuesday, and a senior Iraqi official said the radical Shiite Mahdi Army militia was suspected.
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American forces with their Iraqi allies penetrated the northern city of Samarrah for the first time in a month yesterday in an attempt to recapture territory that has slipped out of coalition control in recent weeks.
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Iraqi police and U.S. forces have captured two militants suspected of involvement in the abduction of three U.S. soldiers south of Baghdad earlier this year, the U.S. military said on Thursday.
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When Margaret Hassan was kidnapped in October, her car was waved down by two men in Iraqi police uniforms. Gunmen surrounded the car and dragged Ms Hassan&#39;s driver and unarmed guard from their seats.
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Gunmen have seized six people in Iraq after a gun battle in which one guard and one of the assailants were killed. The kidnappers stormed the compound of a Saudi company in an
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About 20 or 30 Iraqis were kidnapped by armed men wearing outdated Iraqi National Police uniforms in a central Baghdad shopping area Thursday morning, according to an official with Iraq's Interior Ministry.
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In their boldest ambush yet, insurgents waylaid three minibuses carrying US-trained Iraqi soldiers heading home on leave and killed about 50 of them - forcing many to lie
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U.S. and Iraqi forces freed 42 kidnapped Iraqis  in a raid Sunday on an al-Qaeda hideout north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.
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BAGHDAD -- American forces freed 42 kidnapped Iraqis -- some of whom had been hung from ceilings and tortured for months -- in a raid yesterday on an Al Qaeda hide-out north of Baghdad, the US military said.
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BAGHDAD: More than 3,000 US and Iraqi troops launched an operation in the southern approaches to Baghdad yesterday, seizing a possible insurgent training camp and capturing more than 160 suspected rebels, the US military command said.
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Gunmen in camouflage uniforms kidnapped about 30 Iraqis in Baghdad on Thursday and the new U.S. operational commander said more needed to be done to curb violence in the Iraqi capital.
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Gunmen in Iraqi police uniforms kidnapped five Britons -- a computer expert and his four bodyguards -- from a finance ministry building in Baghdad on Tuesday, officials said.