Three held over Afghan kidnapping
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Afghan police say they have arrested three men over the kidnapping of a Bangladeshi aid worker.
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An Afghan official said criminals were holding a British woman and two other kidnapped United Nations workers, not the Taliban-linked group that has threatened to kill them unless its jailed comrades are freed.
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Two British nationals have been arrested in Afghanistan for posing a threat to national security, Afghan officials said Tuesday.
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Three U.N. workers held by militants in Afghanistan were in their third week of captivity on Friday after calls from both sides for the crisis to be resolved ahead of this weekend's Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr.
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A British woman was among three UN election officials kidnapped in Afghanistan yesterday when gunmen ran their vehicle off the road in Kabul and bundled them into a car.
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Three foreign election workers are kidnapped at gunpoint in the Afghan capital, Kabul, officials say.
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Pakistani security forces have  arrested the head of an Afghan militant group responsible for  kidnapping three U.N. workers in neighboring Afghanistan, the  information minister said on Saturday.
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Three foreign election workers were kidnapped by armed men in the Afghan capital Kabul on Thursday, government sources and election commission officials said.
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A massive manhunt was underway for three UN foreign election workers whose daylight abduction in Kabul has sparked fears of the start of Iraq-style kidnappings in Afghanistan.
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Three suspected Taliban members have been  arrested for trying to kill Afghan President Hamid Karzai by  firing a rocket at his helicopter during his first election  campaign trip outside Kabul, officials said on Friday.
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A UN election worker with dual British and Irish nationality was among three foreigners kidnapped in Afghanistan today. The three were seized at gunpoint in the capital Kabul this morning sparking fears of Iraq-style atrocities.
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Mrs Flanigan and two other UN officials were snatched in the capital Kabul last week while monitoring the country`s presidential election.
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Three foreigners helping to organize  Afghanistan's first presidential election were kidnapped by a  gang of armed men in Kabul on Thursday, triggering a huge  manhunt by Afghan security and international peacekeepers.
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The fate of three UN workers held hostage in Afghanistan remains unclear nearly two weeks after suspected Islamic militants abducted them.
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KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 14 -- A Turkish engineer and two Afghans were apparently kidnapped Tuesday in an area of eastern Afghanistan where bandits and insurgents from the Taliban and other Islamic extremist groups operate, officials said.
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Kabul, Afghanistan -- The kidnapping of three foreign election workers has raised fears that an Iraq-style hostage crisis may be about to engulf the country.
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Two British nationals have been arrested in Afghanistan for posing a threat to national security, Afghan officials said.