Gunmen kidnap senior Iranian diplomat in Baghdad
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Gunmen in Iraqi army uniforms kidnapped a senior Iranian diplomat in Baghdad on Sunday, Iraqi and Iranian officials said on Tuesday, and Tehran said it held U.S. forces responsible for his safety.
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BAGHDAD, SEPTEMBER 27: An Iranian diplomat, Fereidoun Jahani, taken hostage in Iraq last month, was released on Monday amid continued violence countrywide, underlining a warning by US Secretary of State Colin Powell that Iraqâs insurgency was worsening.
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Two Americans and a Briton were kidnapped from their residence in the Mansour district of Baghdad by unknown gunmen this morning, the US embassy there said in an e-mailed statement from the Iraqi capital.
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Gunmen in Iraqi army uniforms kidnapped a senior Iranian diplomat in Baghdad, Iraqi and Iranian officials said on Tuesday, and Tehran blamed the U.S. military and demanded his immediate release.
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TWO Arab nationals, a US citizen and an Asian, were kidnapped today from their offices in Baghdad. Colonel Adnan Abdul Rahman, an interior ministry spokesman, said militants struck in a well-off neighbourhood in central Baghdad.
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Iran's Foreign Ministry confirmed on Tuesday that an Iranian diplomat in Baghdad was kidnapped on Sunday and said it held U.S. forces responsible for his safety, Iran's students news agency ISNA reported.
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Gunmen kidnapped an Italian journalist  in Baghdad Friday, the latest in a series of brazen abductions  but the first since Iraq's election.
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BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed a senior Iraqi oil ministry official Wednesday in Baghdad as a Lebanese-born American was kidnapped in the capital.
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Gunmen snatched two Americans and a  Briton from a house in an affluent neighborhood of central  Baghdad on Thursday, the latest in a nearly six-month campaign  of abductions of foreigners in Iraq.
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Iranian diplomat Fereidoun Jahani,  kidnapped in Iraq last month, has been released, the Iranian  embassy in Baghdad said on Monday, adding he was in good health  but tired.
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Gunmen wearing uniforms similar to those of Iraqi security forces have kidnapped an Iranian diplomat, according to Iranian news reports, and Iran says the gunmen "acted under U.S. supervision."
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BAGHDAD : Twelve people were killed in fresh violence across Iraq as an Iranian diplomat kidnapped two months ago by the same Islamic extremist group holding two French reporters was released.
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The Baghdad correspondent of the Iranian government-run Al-Alam television station was assassinated in the western part of Baghdad, one of his colleagues said Tuesday.
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BAGHDAD, Sept 27  - An Iranian diplomat was freed Monday after a 55-day hostage ordeal at the hands of the same Islamic militant group which is holding two French newsmen, as 12 people were killed in fresh Iraq violence.
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Gunmen kidnapped a senior official of the  security forces in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, the latest sign  of a surge in internal Palestinian unrest, witnesses said.
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Seven Iranians working for the Iranian Electricity Ministry are arrested by US forces in Baghdad.
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Gunmen have killed a senior official in Iraq&#39;s communication ministry as he was driving to work in central Baghdad. Kassim Imhawi was hit by gunmen who pulled up beside him as he travelled into the city from a western suburb.