A Look at Foreigners Taken Hostage in Iraq
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Insurgents in Iraq have kidnapped more than 150 foreigners in their campaign to drive out coalition forces and hamper reconstruction:
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In Iraq, where the kidnapping of foreign nationals has become more and more frequent, several recent examples indicate that governments are willing to pay up or offer political concessions to secure the release ...
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12 November 2004 -- Al-Jazeera television is reporting that Iraqi insurgents have kidnapped a US citizen who worked at a Baghdad airport.
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An Iranian diplomat taken hostage in Iraq last month has been released by his captors but the fate of at least 11 other foreigners, including a Briton threatened with beheading, remain unclear.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - France said it had received word that two French reporters seized in Iraq were alive, and one of their employers claimed the kidnappers had handed them over to an Iraqi opposition group, raising hopes the hostages could soon be released.    Separately, two U.S...
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Gunmen in Iraq kidnapped a Lebanese-American businessman today - the second US citizen seized this week in Baghdad â-s the countryâs almost daily routine of kidnapping and murder continued.
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Insurgents in Iraq have kidnapped more than 170 foreigners:
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Are foreign hostages hapless victims of  militants abusing Islam or casualties of the U.S.-led  occupation of Iraq?
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BAGHDAD, Iraq Sept. 16, 2004 - Gunmen kidnapped two Americans and a Briton Thursday from a house in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood where many foreign companies are based, the Interior Ministry and witnesses said.
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Militants in Iraq have freed seven foreign lorry drivers held hostage for more than a month, their employer says. The Kuwait and Gulf Link Transport Company said the men were on their way to Kuwait.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - An American and three other foreigners were kidnapped Monday from their office in western Baghdad &quot;in an exchange of fire,&quot; the Interior Ministry spokesman said.
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Kidnappings by Muslim militants have driven non-Iraqis and those working with them into hiding to a degree not experienced since the nationwide uprising in April kept most foreigners locked inside their ...
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Kidnappers released two female Italian aid workers and five other hostages Tuesday, raising hopes for foreigners still in captivity. But insurgents showed no sign of easing their blood-soaked campaign against the U.S. presence in Iraq, staging a show of defiance in Samarra and striking twice with deadly force in Basra.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A gruesome video posted on a Web site purported to show militants beheading a Nepalese worker and shooting 11 others in the first mass slaying of foreign hostages during the Iraqi insurgency.    If confirmed, it would raise the number of foreign workers known to have been slain by extremists to at least 22 and would be by far the most ever killed at one time...
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Militants in Iraq are continuing their string of kidnappings, releasing a video Thursday showing someone they say is a Polish woman being held hostage.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A video purporting to show the methodical, grisly killings of 12 Nepalese workers kidnapped in Iraq was posted Tuesday on a Web site linked to a militant group operating in Iraq.    If true, the slayings would mark the largest number of foreign hostages killed at one time by insurgents in Iraq who have seized more than 100 hostages in recent months in their drive to destabilize the country and force coalition troops and foreign workers to withdraw...
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Insurgents in Iraq have kidnapped nearly 150 foreigners in their campaign to drive out coalition forces and hamper reconstruction: