US in shock over hostage deaths
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America wakes up in shock to the likelihood that US hostages held by militants in Iraq are both dead.
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Families of 9/11 victims yesterday reacted with shock, sympathy - and anger â-fter a Georgia man killed himself at Ground Zero on his 25th birthday because he was distraught over President Bush&#39;s re-election.
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The Pentagon death toll in Iraq has reached at least 1,002 nearly 18 months after the US-led invasion, as the brazen abduction of two Italian women aid workers in central Baghdad sparked a new hostage crisis.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - An al-Qaida linked group threatened in a videotape Saturday to behead two blindfolded Americans and a Briton within two days, and insurgents carried out a new string of car bombings, killing at least 19 Iraqis and two American soldiers.    The video was the first word on the fate of Americans Jack Hensley and Eugene Armstrong and Briton Kenneth Bigley since the three construction workers were kidnapped from their Baghdad home two days earlier...
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Islamic militants beheaded a US citizen in Iraq, while the lives of his two British and American colleagues were in grave danger after a 48-hour deadline to save them expired.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - The militant group lead by al-Qaida ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi posted a gruesome video on a Web site Monday showing the decapitation of a man identified as American civil engineer Eugene Armstrong and said a second hostage - either an American or a Briton - would be killed in 24 hours.    The grisly beheading was the latest killing in a particularly violent month in Iraq, with more than 300 people dead in insurgent attacks and U.S...
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Iraqis reacted with anger and disbelief on Wednesday to news that British-Iraqi aid worker Margaret Hassan, who worked in Iraq for decades before being kidnapped a month ago, had been killed by her captors.
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British hostage Ken Bigley has been killed by his captors in Iraq,  his family has confirmed. What is your reaction?
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BAGHDAD, 22 September 2004 - A second American hostage was killed yesterday by a group linked to Al-Qaeda as a 24-hour deadline set by it for the United States to free Iraqi women in US-run prisons ran out.
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The news that 12 Nepalese hostages in Iraq have been killed has shocked everyone in the country. Ever since the first images of the hostages pleading for their lives was aired on television
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The killing of British hostage Ken Bigley in Iraq met with widespread condemnation in the UK, as his home city Liverpool was set to observe a day of mourning today.
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The United States said it was "shocked  and profoundly saddened" by the murder of Russian journalist  Anna Politkovskaya, a vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin.
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MORE than 200 people - including children - are believed to have died after the school hostage crisis in Russia came to chaotic and bloody end today.
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Fears grow for two Western hostages in Iraq following the beheading of their fellow captive.
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Aid worker Margaret Hassan's apparent murder by her kidnappers in Iraq caused shock and dismay among Australians and employees of the charity group that employed her, CARE Australia.
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Two Italian women aid workers were  reported killed in Iraq and a British hostage pleaded for his  life after the killing of two Americans, as the latest hostage  crisis put pressure on governments with troops in Iraq.
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Two Italian women aid workers were reported killed in Iraq and a British hostage pleaded for his life after the killing of two Americans, as the latest hostage crisis put pressure on governments with troops in Iraq.