Iraqi hairdressers forced underground
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Umm Doha cuts hair and waxes eyebrows in secret from her living room because making women look pretty can get a person killed in her Sunni-dominated Baghdad neighborhood.
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Â· Children among captives forced to work for no payÂ· Local officials accused of colluding with traffickers
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When Margaret Hassan was kidnapped in October, her car was waved down by two men in Iraqi police uniforms. Gunmen surrounded the car and dragged Ms Hassan&#39;s driver and unarmed guard from their seats.
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Blood-splotches on walls, chains hanging from a ceiling and swords on the killing floor &mdash; the artifacts left a disturbing tale of brutalities inside a suspected al-Qaida in Iraq torture chamber. But there was yet another chilling fact outside the dirt-floor dungeon.
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A trove of government disclosures forced by a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit has signaled that the abuse of detainees in Iraq and at the
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HATRA, Iraq -- Leaning over the jumble of corpses in their bright purple and turquoise dresses, Greg Kehoe pointed out the blindfolds still tightly drawn around the women's skulls.
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BAGHDAD, Sept 24 : Eight employees, Egyptians and Iraqis, of the Egyptian telecom giant Orascom were kidnapped in Iraq within two days, the interior ministry and a company employee said Friday.
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Kidnappings by Muslim militants have driven non-Iraqis and those working with them into hiding to a degree not experienced since the nationwide uprising in April kept most foreigners locked inside their ...
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Two Italian women working for an aid agency in Iraq have been kidnapped, the agency said Tuesday. Gunmen in olive green uniforms broke into the group's Baghdad offices and took the women along with two Iraqis, neighbors said.
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Al Qaeda-linked militants in Iraq have beheaded a British hostage despite last-ditch secret appeals from the government. A Reuters journalist in Baghdad on Friday saw a video
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraqi law enforcement officials stretched a dragnet over the Green Zone and other parts of the capital yesterday, seeking to arrest the country's culture minister in connection with an attempted political assassination two years ago in which three people were killed, Iraqi officials said.
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NAJAF, Iraq -- Iraqi police, some with their faces covered by ski masks, fired several shots as they stormed a hotel packed with journalists yesterday, rounding them up at gunpoint and forcing them onto flatbed trucks bound for the local police station, where they were detained for an hour.
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BAGHDAD (Aljazeera) -- Iraqi security forces stormed into Aljazeera&#39;s Baghdad office on Saturday and sealed it with red wax. Iraqi officials said the channel had not respected the closure order nor answered
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About 20 or 30 Iraqis were kidnapped by armed men wearing outdated Iraqi National Police uniforms in a central Baghdad shopping area Thursday morning, according to an official with Iraq's Interior Ministry.
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A director of an international charity in Iraq has been kidnapped as she was being driven to work in Baghdad. Margaret Hassan, a British-born Iraqi national, was abducted in the capital, CARE International UK said in London.
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MAHMOUDIYAH, Iraq -- A 15-mile stretch of road south of Baghdad has become the most dreaded in Iraq after a series of high-profile kidnappings and deadly ambushes targeting foreign journalists and prominent politicians.
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Some of the 70 who have been freed were tortured, according to Iraq's higher education minister.