Tribesmen Press for Hostages' Release
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Hundreds of tribesmen gathered Tuesday near the area where suspected al-Qaida-linked militants are holding two Chinese engineers and demanding safe passage to their reputed leader, a former U.S. prisoner from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, officials and residents said.
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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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LIMA, Peru  - Peruvian authorities were trying on  Tuesday to negotiate the surrender of an armed group holding  hostages in a police station, hours after arresting their  leader who had demanded the president's resignation.
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The Iraqi kidnappers of two French reporters who have been missing since Aug. 20 today demanded a $5 million ransom as a condition for their release, according to a statement posted on an Islamic Web site.
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 2 -- A coalition of 300 Iraqi tribal leaders on Saturday demanded the release of Saddam Hussein so he could reclaim the presidency and also called for armed resistance against U.S.-led forces.
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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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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 group beheaded an American.
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The brother of Ken Bigley says he has heard the hostage has been handed over to a group who are preparing to make a ransom demand.
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Suspected Iraqi insurgents have demanded the release of Abu Ghraib prisoners and a huge ransom in exchange for the freedom of an American and a Filipino taken hostage last week in Baghdad, Philippine officials said Tuesday.
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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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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban-linked militants holding three kidnapped UN workers demanded yesterday the release of 26 prisoners, some possibly in US custody at Guantanamo Bay, in return for sparing the hostages' lives.
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BOGOTA -- Four hundred Colombian Indians, carrying only sticks, plan to confront heavily armed Marxist rebels to demand that they release community leaders kidnapped in August, an Indian official said yesterday.
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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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The family of a Briton held hostage in Iraq issue an emotional plea for his release to the militants holding him.
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Family members of American and British hostages appealed for their lives after militants vowed to kill one of them today.
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Afghanistan&#39;s government is trying to secure the rapid release of three United Nations workers taken hostage by an Afghan group, the UN said.
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PESHAWAR: The Jaishul Muslimeen on Wednesday said it had agreed to an Afghan government request to give it more time to locate the 26 prisoners whose release has been demanded in return for the freedom of the three UN hostages.