Free Bashir, demand Iraqi kidnappers
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AN IRAQI militant group is demanding that Jakarta release hardline cleric Abu Bakar Bashir in return for the freedom of two Indonesian woman hostages.
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BAGHDAD Iraq promised Wednesday to release one of two high-profile women prisoners, but officials denied the decision was linked to demands by militants who purportedly killed two American hostages and are threatening to execute a Briton unless all female
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Radical militants on Tuesday kidnapped one man who they claimed to be Japanese and demanded the withdrawal of Japanese troops from Iraq.
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BAGHDAD, 19 September 2004 - Kidnappers of two Americans and a Briton yesterday threatened to behead them unless Iraqi women held at two American-controlled detention facilities were freed within 48 hours.
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Powerful Shiite leader says he plans to lead a mass demonstration today to end fighting. â¢ Iraqi hostage: Militants said Wednesday they had kidnapped the brother-in-law of Iraqi Defense Minister Hazem Shaalan
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The husband of kidnapped aid agency chief Margaret Hassan has made a fresh appeal to her Iraqi captors to release her.
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BEIRUT: Relatives of a kidnapped member of Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi&#39;s family have begged her captors to release her saying she was pregnant, in a videotape aired by Lebanese satellite channel LBC yesterday.
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TONY EASTLEY: Iraq&#39;s interim Prime Minister is demanding residents of Fallujah hand over Jordanian terrorist, Abu Mussab Al Zarqawi, or face a military assault.
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A group claiming to have captured two Indonesian women in Iraq has said it will release them if Jakarta frees Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir being held for alleged terrorist links.
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Kidnappers holding two Indonesian women hostages in Iraq are demanding the release of a militant cleric accused of leading a terrorist group in Southeast Asia.
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ISLAMABAD : Kidnappers of two Chinese engineers have demanded the release of two militants held by Pakistani security forces, Information Minister Sheikh Rashid said.
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Iraq&#39;s foreign minister says his country is doing what it can to secure the release of two Americans and a British national taken hostage in Baghdad Thursday, but will not give in to kidnappers&#39; demands.
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Al Qaeda's leader in Iraq called for the   kidnapping of Westerners to swap for a Muslim cleric jailed in   the United States, according to an Internet audio tape issued   on Thursday.
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Kidnappers have abducted a Turkish shipping magnate and three others in southern Iraq and demanded a &#36;25 million ransom, the Turkish private NTV television channel said Saturday.
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Families of eight Chinese hostages in  Iraq pleaded on Thursday for their release as a deadline set by  their captors neared, and Japan said it was checking reports  one of its citizens had been kidnapped.
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Iraq&#39;s radical Shiite Muslim leader, Moqtada Sadr, is calling for the release of two French reporters being held hostage in Iraq.
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The Iraqi husband of kidnapped aid worker Margaret Hassan has pleaded with her captors to release her. &quot;I beg you, in the name of Islam and Arabism, while we are in the holiest Islamic month, to return my