Abductions in Iraq a big business
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Groups tied to Abu Musab Zarqawi claim a major car bombing Tuesday, taking Westerners as hostages. By Howard LaFranchi. BAGHDAD - When a disciplined group of uniformed men kidnapped two Italian aid workers
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Charity Care International says its British-born head of operations in Iraq has been kidnapped in Baghdad. A spokeswoman told Reuters that Margaret Hassan, who has been working for the charity
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Six Egyptians and four Iraqis working for the country's mobile phone company are the latest kidnapped, authorities say, and Muslim leaders in Britain announce plans to send negotiators to Baghdad to try to win the release of Kenneth Bigley. More than 140 foreigners have been taken in Iraq and 26 killed. Meanwhile, insurgents fire a rocket on a Baghdad street, ...
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Kidnappers seized six Egyptians and four Iraqis working for the country's mobile phone company, authorities said Friday, and Muslim leaders in Britain announced plans to send negotiators to Baghdad in hopes of winning the release of hostage Kenneth Bigley.    Meanwhile, U.S...
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Helping Iraq is hard to do. Many aid organizations have already pulled out their international staffs and, faced with the kidnapping of the director of CARE International in Iraq, some are wondering if they ...
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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 compounds.
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Gunmen in Iraqi army uniforms staged a mass kidnapping on Sunday at the office of the Iraqi Red Crescent in downtown Baghdad, police said.
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Insurgents in Iraq have kidnapped dozens of people in their campaign to drive out coalition forces and hamper reconstruction:
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- CARE International said the director of its operation in Iraq has been kidnapped. CARE said Margaret Hassan -- said to be an Iraqi national -- was abducted Tuesday morning in Baghdad and it does not know why.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - More than 3,000 U.S. and Iraqi troops launched an operation in the southern approaches to Baghdad on Tuesday, seizing a suspected insurgent training camp and capturing more than 160 alleged rebels, the U.S...
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BAGHDAD - Foreign aid workers have bolted their doors, hired more guards and installed spy cameras outside their offices here, and are considering whether to quit Iraq altogether following the kidnapping of two relief workers.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - More than 3,000 U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a major operation Tuesday against insurgent strongholds just south of Baghdad in an area notorious for kidnappings and ambushes...
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BAGHDAD, May 27 -- U.S. forces raided an al-Qaeda in Iraq hide-out northeast of Baghdad on Sunday and rescued 41 people who had been kidnapped by the insurgent group, some as long as four months ago, a U.S. military spokesman said.
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An &#39;armed group&#39; has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of the director of an international charity in Iraq as she was being driven to work in Baghdad.
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Almost until the eve of the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, U.S. oil companies, including ExxonMobil and ChevronTexaco, were among the largest purchasers of Iraqi crude oil.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen abducted six Egyptians working for Iraq's mobile phone company, seizing two in a bold raid on the firm's Baghdad office and the others outside the capital, officials said Friday, the latest in a string of kidnappings that have underscored the country's fragile security.    Also Friday, mortars exploded near the Italian Embassy in Baghdad, slightly wounding three Iraqis, the Foreign Ministry in Rome said...
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Gunmen kidnap many people from the Iraqi office of the Red Crescent aid agency in Baghdad.