Religious leaders in hostage plea
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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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Authorities insisted they won't give in to militants' demands to free female Iraqi prisoners despite the plea of a tearful British hostage begging Britain to save his life in a video released by his captors.
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Pope John Paul appealed today for the release of the French and other hostages in Iraq, saying human beings could not be treated like merchandise.
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France's government and leaders of its  Muslim minority urged Iraqi militants Sunday to free two French  journalists they were holding hostage in a bid to force Paris  to revoke its ban on Muslim headscarves in schools.
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BAGHDAD -- A British hostage threatened with death by a militant Islamic group appealed to Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain yesterday to save his life by ordering the release of all women held in Iraqi prisons.
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Efforts to help save the life of Kenneth Bigley held captive in Iraq, intensified when Irish politicians made an appeal to Bigley&#39;s captors.
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Iraq's interim President Ghazi al-Yawar vowed Friday to do all he could to obtain the release of two Italian women aid workers held hostage, as Muslim leaders in Rome recorded prayers on their behalf.
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Pope John Paul appealed yesterday for the release of the French and other hostages in Iraq, saying human beings could not be treated like merchandise.
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Though several Shiite and Sunni religious leaders have been kidnapped and killed, this is the first time insurgents have seized such a prominent Christian leader.
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A message claiming to be from  Islamic militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi calls for the release of Margaret Hassan.
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CAIRO, Egypt -- The insurgent group Al Qaeda in Iraq called Friday for the release of Margaret Hassan, a kidnapped charity leader, and said it would free her if she fell into their hands.
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Kidnappers have abducted the head of a Christian party in Iraq and are demanding the withdrawal of U.S. troops, Al Arabiya television reported on Monday.
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BAGHDAD: Al Zarqavi group has appealed hostage takers for release of Margaret Hassan, the chief of Iraqi relief organization Care International who was taken hostage by a group of Iraqi militants, a newspaper report said on Saturday.
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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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The insurgent group al-Qaida in Iraq called Friday for the release of the kidnapped executive of the CARE charity, Margaret Hassan
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A UN spokesman has called on kidnappers to release three UN hostages held in Afghanistan before the Muslim celebration of Eid al-Fitr later this week.
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BAGHDAD, Italy, SEPT. 8, 2004 .- The Chaldean patriarch of Baghdad is working to obtain the liberation of two Italian volunteers, kidnapped Tuesday in the Iraqi capital.