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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A militant Iraqi group appealed Sunday to the country's top Sunni Muslim body for an edict on whether the kidnapping of foreigners who work for occupation forces is acceptable under Islam.
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France frantically called on Arab leaders and Muslim religious leaders Wednesday to help save two journalists kidnapped in Iraq, setting in motion
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Messages follow American's beheading BAGHDAD The families of an American and a British engineer being held hostage by a militant group pleaded Tuesday for officials to help get the men released hours after the ...
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The family of a British hostage in Iraq  renew appeals for authorities to negotiate with the  kidnappers.
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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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The family of a British hostage captured in Iraq has appealed to the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, to intervene to try to save his life.
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The Iraqi militant group which killed Briton Ken Bigley has called for hostage Margaret Hassan to be freed, a message on an Islamic website said.
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Two French journalists held hostage by Islamic militants in Iraq appealed late Monday for their countrymen and president to save their lives by giving in to their captors' demand to rescind a ban on Muslim head scarves in French schools.
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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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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.
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Pope John Paul, echoing appeals by Muslim  leaders, called Wednesday for the release of two French  journalists held hostage in Iraq as France's foreign minister  pressed on with a Middle East rescue mission.
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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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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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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
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The aid charity Care International has appealed to the captors of its Iraq director Margaret Hassan to release her.
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Relatives pleaded Monday for the release of two Americans and a Briton held hostage as a deadline loomed for their beheading. In Baghdad, gunmen assassinated two clerics from a powerful Sunni Muslim group opposed to the US presence in Iraq.