Kidnapped Foreigners Known for Sharing
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Almost every morning, the whirr of the power generator sitting outside house No. 36 broke the quiet of the neat tree-lined street, bringing air conditioners and refrigerators on the block back to life. On Thursday, the generator stood silent.
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Fifteen foreigners, including 11 French nationals, a Briton and an Italian, are believed to have been kidnapped in a remote and inhospitable area of Ethiopia where separatist rebels operate.
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ROME, Oct 22  (IPS) - Kidnappers' tape tactics in broadcasting  footage of victims has won them  international attention. But are  the media right to broadcast the tapes? Or are they  serving  criminal propaganda?
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GERAKAS, Greece  - Two gunmen, thought to be Albanians, commandeered a bus with some 25 passengers on board in an Athens suburb, later releasing a total of 12 while reportedly demanding one million euros in ransom and a plane to be flown out of
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Afghan kidnappers holding hostage three United Nation workers, including Annetta Flanigan from Northern Ireland, say the progress of negotiations for their release will decide whether they extend a deadline to execute the trio.
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BAGHDAD, SEPTEMBER 16: Gunmen kidnapped two Americans and a Briton from a house in an affluent Baghdad neighbourhood on Thursday, the latest in a nearly six-month campaign of abductions of foreigners in Iraq.
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MEKELE, Ethiopia  - Five Europeans and eight locals kidnapped by gunmen in remote north Ethiopia are in good condition despite more than a week's captivity, the government and a local community leader said on Friday.
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THE KIDNAPPING and murder of foreigners in Iraq is continuing. Many of those kidnapped have been engineers or other support workers for the coalition forces.
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BAGHDAD - One of Turkey&#39;s richest businessmen has been reported kidnapped, appearing in a video Saturday along with a weeping employee saying they were being held hostage.
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Afghan authorities have arrested three people and seized a car believed to have been used in the kidnapping of three foreigners, government and security sources say, but there was no word on the fate of the hostages.
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KABUL: Three foreign election workers were kidnapped by armed men in Kabul on Thursday, government officials said. The workers were from Britain, the Philippines and Kosovo, the sources said, and two of the victims were women.
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Aytullah Gezmen, of Turkey. Kidnapped July 27 or 28. Worked for Bilintur, Turkish company providing laundry service for Jordanian firm in Iraq.
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There was confusion over the hostages&#39; nationalities with local police initially saying they were from Britain, the Philippines and Kosovo and were two women and a man.
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BAGHDAD -- A convergence of organized crime and political violence that targets Iraqis for cash is also fueling the high-profile seizures of foreigners like Eugene Armstrong and Jack Hensley, the Americans beheaded by militants this week, US officials say.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Gunmen wearing military uniforms kidnapped three foreign UN election workers here in a daylight attack yesterday in one of the most affluent and heavily guarded areas of the city. The kidnappings, coming five days after a suicide bomber killed two people, including an American woman, on a busy shopping street, raised fears that the Afghan capital could ...
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Five others appeared in London yesterday.One - Parviz Khan - is accused of plotting to kidnap and kill a British soldier.Police have revealed they have seized over four-and-a-half thousand exhibits - including computers and mobile phones.  (c) 2007 Belfast Telegraph.
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Insurgents in Iraq have kidnapped more than 135 foreigners in their campaign to drive out coalition forces and hamper reconstruction: