Cleric&#39;s Aides: Kidnapped Journalist Will Be Freed
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Baghdad, Iraq -- Some of Muqtada al-Sadr&#39;s aides in Iraq say kidnappers have promised to release a Western journalist, perhaps as early as Friday.
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Egypt said Tuesday that Iraqi kidnappers had freed one Egyptian hostage and were expected to release three others shortly. The holding company that employed the four hostages confirmed that one had been released but said it could not give the status of the others.
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A British reporter is handed over to UK officials after being freed by his kidnappers in southern Iraq.
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BAGHDAD: The US military freed a top aide to rebel Iraqi cleric Moqtada Al Sadr on Thursday in a gesture that could help the interim governmentâs efforts to calm rebel-held strongholds before elections in January.
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BAGHDAD - An Iranian diplomat taken hostage in Iraq last month was released by his captors on Monday but the fate of at least 11 other foreigners, including a Briton threatened with beheading, remained unclear.
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A top aide to firebrand Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said today that kidnappers who abducted and threatened to kill a US journalist had promised to set him free.
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An Iraqi group has released U.S.  journalist Micah Garen whom it was holding hostage in Iraq,  Arab satellite television Al Jazeera reported on Sunday.
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BAGHDAD - A US journalist kidnapped in Iraq more than a week ago was released Sunday. In an interview with Al-Jazeera television, Micah Garen, 36, thanked representatives of radical Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr for working to secure his release.
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One of the two CBS journalists kidnapped in the Iraqi city of Basra on Sunday has been released.
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An aide to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr says Iraqi kidnappers have lifted their death threat on a US journalist. The aide says he has spoken to mediators who say they&#39;re working out a way to have Micah Garen of New York released.
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Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has reached an agreement with the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani that grants his freedom from murder charges and secures peace in war-torn Najaf, al-Sistani aides said on Thursday.
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A kidnapped Iranian diplomat has been released after more than a month in captivity, the Iranian Embassy said Monday.
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A Muslim cleric allegedly kidnapped by CIA agents and tortured in Egypt has been released, his lawyer says.
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An Iraqi group said Friday it was holding a US journalist hostage in Iraq but would release him Saturday because he was opposed to US administration policies, according to a statement on the internet.
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An Iranian diplomat taken hostage in Iraq last month was released by his captors on Monday but the fate of at least 11 other foreigners, including a Briton threatened with beheading, remained unclear.
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Clerics differ on who was responsible for the kidnapping in Baghdad.
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A top aide to firebrand Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who appealed to kidnappers to free a Western journalist, said Friday they had promised to release him. The pan-Arab television station Al-Jazeera reported Thursday that a militant group calling itself the Martyrs Brigade had abducted New York journalist Micah Garen and threatened to kill him within 48 hours unless U.S. pulled out of the wear-shattered city of Najaf.