Singer Cat Stevens urges Iraqi group to free Briton
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Yusuf Islam, the singer and song-writer formerly known as Cat Stevens, has urged Islamic militants in Iraq to free British hostage Kenneth Bigley, seized 10 days ago and threatened with death.
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Hostage Margaret Hassan has made an emotional appeal for UK forces to withdraw from Iraq, in a video shown on al-Jazeera. She was shown pleading: &quot;Please help me, please help me.
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Al-Qaida in Iraq's leader, in a chilling audiotape released Thursday, called for nuclear scientists to join his group's holy war and urged insurgents to kidnap Westerners so they could be traded for a blind Egyptian sheik who is serving a life sentence in a U.S. prison.
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A British man held hostage in Iraq  appeared in a video on Wednesday, chained and distraught,  pleading with Prime Minister Tony Blair to save his life by  meeting his captors' demands to release Iraqi women from jail.
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BRITAIN has made a televised appeal on an Arab satellite channel for Iraqis to help rescue British hostage Kenneth Bigley, who is being held under threat of death with two US kidnap victims.
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The government appealed for the release of a Briton held hostage in Iraq in a message aired on Arabic satellite television channels.
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A statement purportedly linked to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi group posted on a website Friday urged the captors of the British aid worker Margaret Hassan in Iraq to release her &quot;unless she is proven to be a collaborator&quot;.
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Dubai - Britain&#39;s department of affairs on Sunday launched a televised appeal on an Arab satellite channel for Iraqis to help rescue British hostage Kenneth Bigley who faces a death threat along with two US kidnap victims.
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Al Qaeda's leader in Iraq urged his   followers to capture foreign hostages to try to free a Muslim   cleric jailed in the United States, according to an Internet   audio tape issued on Thursday.
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Former pop singer Cat Stevens, a Muslim, will be deported to Britain because his activities could be &quot;linked to terrorism,&quot; a US official says.
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The militant group al-Qaida in Iraq purportedly called Friday for the release of the kidnapped executive of the CARE charity, Margaret
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Muslim and Christian religious leaders in the hometown of a British hostage facing death in Iraq have appealed for his captors to free him.
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Hostage Margaret Hassan has urged Britain to withdraw its troops from Iraq and free Iraqi women prisoners, Aljazeera has reported.
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Several hundred disabled Iraqis on crutches and in wheelchairs have begged kidnappers to release British-Iraqi aid director Margaret Hassan, saying their lot has worsened since her abduction a week ago.
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Rogue Iraqi Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr has called for the release of an American freelance journalist with New England roots who was seized in Nasiriyah Friday.
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A British man held hostage in Iraq appeared in a video on Wednesday, chained and distraught, pleading with Prime Minister Tony Blair to save his life by meeting his captors' demands to release Iraqi women from jail.
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British-Iraqi hostage Margaret Hassan  made an emotional appeal for British forces to withdraw from  Iraq in a videotape broadcast on Arabic television channel Al  Jazeera on Friday.