Shiite militants say kidnappers have lifted death threat on US ...
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Kidnappers have lifted their threat to kill a US journalist abducted in the southern city of Nasiriyah along with his Iraqi translator, an
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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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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 Briton Kenneth Bigley threatened with beheading, remains unclear.
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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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Aides to a top Shi&#39;ite cleric in Iraq say 18 captive Iraqi soldiers have been freed by kidnappers who had threatened to kill them.
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A firefight broke out between U.S. troops and militants today in Baghdad's Sadr City as coalition forces targeted a man they said was a leader in an Iranian-funded kidnapping operation. At least 13 people were killed and 60 others were reported wounded in the densely populated Shiite slum where there is strong support for Iran and anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
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NAJAF, Iraq  Militants loyal to firebrand cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said Saturday that they handed over the keys to a revered Muslim shrine to Shiite religious leaders a big step toward resolving a 2-week-old standoff in the holy city of Najaf.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct. 28 - One militant group said Thursday in an Internet message that it had killed 11 Iraqi security officers it was holding hostage, while another released a video showing that it had kidnapped
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A Shiite militant group has released a video of an Iraqi-American soldier who was kidnapped nearly four months ago while visiting his wife in downtown Baghdad, an American television network reported Wednesday.  The U.S.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - In Iraq tonight, another American has lost his life, but the victim was not a soldier. Kidnappers who had promised to execute one British and two American hostages made good on part of their threat.
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The US military said tonight it had captured two senior terrorists linked to Iraqâs most feared Islamic militant group. The arrests came as police uncovered more bodies under the rubble a day after a suicide
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20 September 2004 -- Reports say that 18 Iraqi national guardsmen held hostage in Iraq have been released by their captors. Naim al-Qaabi, a representative of Shi&#39;ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, said the guardsmen were released at al-Sadr&#39;s request.
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The search continues for the body of a British man who was beheaded after an escape bid. BAGHDAD -- Shiite militia loyal to anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr agreed yesterday to begin handing in weapons
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The US military has freed a top aide to rebel Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in a gesture that could help the interim government&#39;s efforts to calm rebel-held strongholds before elections due in January.
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Baghdad, Sept. 19 (NNN): Militants have threatened to kill 13 Western hostages, including two Americans and one Briton, unless all female Iraqi prisoners are set free by Monday.
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Baghdad - Gunmen kidnapped a Lebanese-American businessman - the second United States citizen seized this week in Baghdad - and militants released a tape showing the beheading of an Iraqi officer as a warning to those who deal with &quot;the infidel&quot; Americans
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BAGHDAD, 19 September 2004 - Kidnappers of two Americans and a Briton yesterday threatened to behead them unless Iraqi women held at two American-controlled detention facilities were freed within 48 hours.