Iraq may free woman prisoner
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Iraq&#39;s government says one of two women in US custody will be freed today, but insists the move is unrelated to the demands of kidnappers who have killed two Americans and are threatening to kill a Briton.
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The life of a British hostage is in the balance amid reports that one of two Iraqi women that his Islamic kidnappers have demanded to be released could be freed by the US military.
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A Polish woman held hostage in Iraq since mid-October is  released and flown to Warsaw.
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Iraq News, DUBAI - Iraqi-British hostage Margaret Hassan has again urged Britain to withdraw its troops from Iraq and also to free Iraqi women prisoners, Al Jazeera television reports.
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A Polish woman kidnapped in Iraq last  month has been freed and flown to Poland and said she was  treated well, raising hopes for other foreign hostages.
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Rome - One of the two Italian women hostages freed after being held for three weeks in Iraq said on Wednesday she missed the country and her Iraqi friends and wanted to return soon.
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An Iranian diplomat taken hostage in Iraq last month was released by his captors on Monday but the fate of at least 11 other foreigners, including a Briton threatened with beheading, remained unclear.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's leader and U.S. officials moved quickly Wednesday to squelch the idea a top female germ-warfare scientist for Saddam Hussein would be freed soon, after a senior Iraqi official said the decision had been made to release her...
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A German woman held hostage with her son in Iraq has been freed, the German foreign minister says.
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LIVERPOOL, England  - News that a female weapons  scientist might be freed in Iraq gave hope to the family of a  British hostage on Wednesday, after his captors said they had  beheaded the second of two Americans being held with him.
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An Iraqi official said on Wednesday that the government is planning to release one of two women scientists being held prisoner for working on Saddam Husseinâs chemical weapons program.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Authorities insisted they won't give in to militants' demands to free female Iraqi prisoners despite the broadcast of a videotape that showed a tearful British hostage begging Britain to save his life.    The captive, Kenneth Bigley, appealed to British Prime Minister Tony Blair to intervene...
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A Polish woman held hostage in Iraq by a militant group since late October has been freed, Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka said Saturday.
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BAGHDAD, 19 September 2004 - Kidnappers of two Americans and a Briton yesterday threatened to behead them unless Iraqi women held at two American-controlled detention facilities were freed within 48 hours.
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Two female Italian hostages seized in  Baghdad three weeks ago were set free on Tuesday along with  kidnapped Iraqis and Egyptians in a flurry of releases, but an  abducted Briton remained under threat of death.
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Baghdad, Sept. 22 (NNN): In the wake of beheading of the second American hostage, Iraq&#39;s justice ministry on Wednesday said that one of two female scientists held in US custody will be released.
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A Polish woman freed after being taken  hostage in October in Iraq said on Saturday her captors had  treated her well.