Hostage Deadline Looms; Iraq Clerics Slain
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Relatives pleaded on Monday for the release of two Americans and a Briton as a deadline loomed for their beheading. In Baghdad, two Sunni Muslim clerics from a powerful conservative group were assassinated within hours of each other...
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Several Iraqi militant groups have threatened to execute more than 20 hostages, including three Americans and 18 Iraqi soldiers, unless their demands are met before deadlines.
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A militant group headed by al Qaeda ally  Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has killed an American captive in Iraq  after the lapse of a 24-hour deadline on Tuesday, Arabic  channel Al Jazeera said.
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BAGHDAD -- A militant group said it has kidnapped a missing Western journalist with Boston-area ties and would kill him if US forces did not leave the holy Shi'ite city of Najaf within 48 hours, Al-Jazeera reported yesterday.
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Insurgents in Iraq have threatened to kill 13 hostages, including two Americans and a Briton, and staged car bomb attacks killing 23 people in Kirkuk and two US soldiers near Baghdad.
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The kidnappers of an American-French journalist in Iraq have threatened to execute him within 48 hours unless US forces withdraw from the holy city of Najaf.
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The group of Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, which has claimed the gruesome killing of foreign hostages in Iraq, reportedly threatened to execute two Americans and a Briton it is holding unless Iraqi women prisoners are freed within 48 hours.
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An Iraqi militant group has threatened to behead a Turkish hostage within three days unless the United States releases all Iraqi prisoners and Turkish nationals leave Iraq, Al Arabiya television said on Monday.
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Militants who beheaded an American  hostage in Iraq threatened to kill another U.S. captive and a  Briton on Tuesday, as relatives and diplomats pleaded for their  release.
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BAGHDAD - Several insurgent groups in Iraq have set deadlines for killing hostages, from a trio of American and British workers to an entire squad of 18 Iraqi soldiers, unless demands are met.
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Militants who beheaded an American  hostage in Iraq said they would kill another U.S. captive and a  Briton on Tuesday if their demands were not met.
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Relatives pleaded on Monday for the release of two Americans and a Briton as a deadline loomed for their beheading. In Baghdad, two Sunni Muslim clerics from a powerful conservative group were assassinated within hours of each other.
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Relatives of a man being held hostage in Iraq waited for word about him Saturday as militants threatened to decapitate him, another American and a Briton unless demands were met within 48 hours.
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A militant group headed by al Qaeda ally  Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has killed an American captive in Iraq  after the lapse of a 24-hour deadline Tuesday, a statement  posted on the Internet and an Arabic channel said.
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Militants in Iraq said they had  beheaded a second American hostage and would kill a Briton  unless Iraqi women were freed from jail.
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A hitherto unknown Islamist group has threatened to kill 15 captured Iraqi soldiers if authorities do not release an aide to Shi'ite rebel cleric Moqtada al-Sadr within 48 hours, Arab television Al Jazeera reported Sunday.
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DUBAI - The group of Abu Mussab Al Zarqawi, which has claimed the gruesome killing of foreign hostages in Iraq, threatened yesterday to execute two Americans and a Briton it is holding unless Iraqi women prisoners are freed within 48 hours.