Egypt follows up hostage issue in Iraq
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Egypt is making intensive contacts with its mission in Baghdad and the Iraqi authorities to secure the release of six nationals taken hostages in Iraq, a senior diplomat of the Foreign Ministry said Friday.
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Two Egyptians working for a telecoms company in Baghdad were abducted from their offices overnight by a group of armed men, Iraq&#39;s Interior Ministry said on Friday.
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The body of an Egyptian who was kidnapped in Iraq last month has been found in northern Iraq, Iraqi police said on Sunday. Police said the body was found in the town of Baiji, some 112 miles north of Baghdad.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Six Egyptian engineers working for the mobile telephone company that provides service to central Iraq have been abducted in the past several days, prompting a company official to warn that the phone network would shut down if its remaining
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Gunmen kidnapped four Egyptian engineers  working for a telecoms company in Iraq, a spokesman for a  related telecoms group said Sunday.
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A spokesman for the Egyptian Telecommunications company, Orascom, said that the kidnappers of the two Egyptian hostages had released them on Monday evening after it was announced in Cairo that only one hostage was released.
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Egypt gave the new Iraqi government the clearest expression of its support yet on Sunday, saying that helping it hold elections early next year was the only solution to the violence gripping the country.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Arab news network Al-Jazeera showed footage Thursday of 10 new hostages seized in Iraq by militants.    Al-Jazeera said the 10 - six Iraqis, two Lebanese and two Indonesian women - were taken by The Islamic Army in Iraq...
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CAIRO, Egypt Aug. 28, 2004 - Islamic militants released a brief tape showing two French journalists kidnapped recently in Iraq, saying they were holding the men to protest a French law banning headscarves
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Kidnappers seized six Egyptians and four Iraqis working for the country&#39;s mobile phone company in two separate incidents, authorities said.
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BAGHDAD: Eight Egyptian and Iraqi employees of an Egyptian telecommunications company were the latest kidnapping victims in Iraq yesterday as the family of British hostage Kenneth Bigley anxiously awaited news of his fate.
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Egypt's telecom group Orascom said it was imposing a news blackout to ensure the safety of two kidnapped engineers held hostage in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Kidnappers seized six Egyptians and four Iraqis working for the country's mobile phone company, authorities said Friday, and Muslim leaders in Britain announced plans to send negotiators to Baghdad in hopes of winning the release of hostage Kenneth Bigley.    Gunmen abducted two of the Egyptians on Thursday in a bold raid on the firm's Baghdad office - the latest in a string of kidnappings targeting engineers working on Iraq's infrastructure, in a bid to undermine the U.S.-allied interim government...
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen abducted six Egyptians 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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Violence and uncertainty over the fate of the two French hostages continued in Iraq, while militants freed seven truck drivers from India, Kenya and Egypt yesterday after holding them hostage for six weeks, ...
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Gunmen kidnapped two Egyptians during  the night in Baghdad, police said on Friday, as relatives of a  seized Briton, whose two colleagues have been beheaded, waited  for news on his fate.
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The kidnappers of Briton Ken Bigley remained silent today while the Iraqi abduction business continued unabated. Six Egyptians, working for a mobile phone company, were kidnapped in and around Baghdad.