UK hostage &#39;in hands of new group&#39;
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LONDON, England -- The brother of British hostage Ken Bigley has said he believes the captive is now in the hands of a more moderate group in Iraq.
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THE Government faced a new hostage crisis last night after a Briton running an aid agency was kidnapped by an unidentified armed group.
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The Islamist group that claims to have kidnapped three UN staff in the Afghan capital has provided evidence for the first time that it is holding them.
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Top government crisis cell prepared for fresh talks Wednesday about how to secure the release of five Britons who were kidnapped in Baghdad in broad daylight, officials said.
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Taliban kidnappers have released a video of a British woman and her two United Nations colleagues they are holding as hostages in a tactic the splinter group has copied from Iraqi terrorists.
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HOPES for Ken Bigley&#39;s freedom rose yesterday after it was claimed he had been &#39;sold&#39; to a less brutal gang of kidnappers.
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The brother of Ken Bigley says he has new information the British hostage is alive and appeals to Tony Blair to help.
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The fate of a British hostage kidnapped in Baghdad was looking increasingly perilous today, after his Muslim extremist captors threatened to kill him if their demands are not met.
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THE younger brother of Ken Bigley, the British hostage held in Iraq, said today he believed the engineer had been handed over to a &quot;more moderate gang&quot; that would be more likely to free him.
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MILITANTS in Iraq yesterday claimed they had kidnapped another ten people, dampening any optimism that the freeing of two Italian hostages might have marked a turning point in the hostage crisis.
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A two-man delegation from Britain&#39;s biggest Muslim group arrived in Iraq yesterday on a quest to free British hostage Kenneth Bigley, seized by Islamic militants Sept.
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A two-man delegation from Britain's  biggest Muslim group arrived in Iraq on Saturday on a quest to  free British hostage Kenneth Bigley, seized by Islamic  militants nine days ago and threatened with death.
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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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The brother of Iraq hostage Ken Bigley says he has heard the Briton has been handed over to another group.
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Several snags including over a ransom have held up the handing over of British hostage Kenneth Bigley to another group in Iraq, said an editor of a Kuwaiti newspaper, citing Iraq militant sources.
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The Arab television station Al-Jazeera has broadcast a videotape purportedly showing a British and two American hostages being held in Iraq by a militant group led by a suspected ally of the al-Qaida terror network, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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A two-man delegation from Britain&#39;s biggest Muslim group has arrived in Iraq on a quest to free British hostage Kenneth Bigley, seized by Islamic militants nine days ago and threatened with death.