Mystery over hostage&#39;s fate
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BAGHDAD: A body found in Iraq cannot be confirmed as that of a young Japanese man taken hostage and the corpse has been sent to Qatar for identification, Japan&#39;s Senior Vice Foreign Minister Shuzen Tanigawa said yesterday.
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The images coming out of the latest hostage crisis in Iraq &#151; capped by dramatic video of British captive Kenneth Bigley begging for his life &#151; have transfixed Britons, left governments looking helpless, and revived a classic dilemma about whether to negotiate with terrorists.
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Media: The lingering fate of the hostage Kenneth Bigley has dominated recent news reports. Despite criticisms that the headlines are promoting the fundamentalistsâ agenda, last weekâs footage of Bigley
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Confusion surrounded the fate of the Iraq aid worker Margaret Hassan last night after main rebel groups denied being involved with her kidnap.
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This is how a forensic psychiatrist described the dynamics likely playing out in the heads of the three key players in yesterday&#39;s hostage taking outside Union Station.
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Hostage escaped but was recaptured and killed HOSTAGE Ken Bigley was murdered after escaping his captors for almost 30 minutes. Locals saw the terrified Briton fleeing through farmland near the lawless Iraqi town of Latifiya.
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There are reports that British hostage Kenneth Bigley was killed after he attempted to flee his captors in Iraq.
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Iraq is attempting to confirm whether a top aide to Saddam Hussein is on the run or has been captured. Government officials have been making contradictory statements over the fate of Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri.
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THE brother of Iraq hostage Ken Bigley was yesterday investigating whether it might be possible to buy his sibling&#39;s life. Paul Bigley was looking into reports in a Kuwaiti newspaper that a Iraqi militant
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The deadline set by Islamic militants for the beheading of a Japanese hostage unless their demands were met has passed with no news of the man&#39;s fate.
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Confusion still surrounds reports hostage Ken Bigley tried to flee his captors shortly before he was beheaded.
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Confusion surrounded the fate of two French journalists held hostage in Iraq on Thursday after a new purported statement from the kidnappers denied they had demanded a $5 million ransom or set a 48-hour deadline.
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Iraq&#39;s interim president expressed doubts Friday over a claim of responsibility by a previously unknown militant group for the kidnapping of
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LONDON - The images coming out of the latest hostage crisis in Iraq - capped by dramatic video of British captive Kenneth Bigley begging for his life - have transfixed Britons, left governments looking helpless, and revived a classic dilemma about whether to negotiate with terrorists.    But the plight of the British construction worker and his two murdered American colleagues has also raised new concerns about terrorists' tremendous ability to set agendas in an Internet age that makes their messages - even in the form of shocking beheading videos - all but impossible to stop...
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said, in a move that may raise hopes for the release of a British hostage. soldiers, could be freed as part of a review of her detention.
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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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The fate of three UN workers held hostage in Afghanistan remains unclear nearly two weeks after suspected Islamic militants abducted them.