UK hostage &#39;in hands of new group&#39;
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LONDON, England -- The brother of British hostage Ken Bigley has said he believes the captive is now in the hands of a more moderate group in Iraq.
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Britain is ready to listen to kidnappers holding a British hostage in Iraq but is not prepared to negotiate with them or pay them a ransom, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said on Thursday.
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DUBLIN : The kidnappers of aid worker Margaret Hassan threatened to hand her over to the group led by Iraqi militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in a new video which also reportedly showed the British-Irish woman in a distressed state.
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Two members of a British Muslim group are beginning efforts in Iraq to secure the freedom of Ken Bigley.
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THE Government faced a new hostage crisis last night after a Briton running an aid agency was kidnapped by an unidentified armed group.
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An unknown militant group holding Iraqi-British hostage Margaret Hassan in Iraq has threatened to turn her over to a group led by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi if its demands are not met, Al Jazeera television says.
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Five British civilians kidnapped in Baghdad last month are being held by a group trained, funded and armed by Iran, US commander says.
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BAGHDAD, IRAQ - The captors of relief worker Margaret Hassan threatened to hand her over to a group that beheaded several hostages if British troops don&#39;t leave Iraq, Al-Jazeera said Tuesday.
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An Iraqi militant group says it has seized 10 hostages all of whom work for an electronics firm, reports say. Briton Kenneth Bigley, 62, is still being held in Iraq, as are two French journalists.
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A video posted on an Islamist website purportedly shows a British hostage in Iraq pleading for his life. Militants have threatened to kill Kenneth Bigley unless the US and UK release all Iraqi women held in the country&#39;s prisons.
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An unknown militant group holding Iraqi-British hostage Margaret Hassan in Iraq has threatened to turn her over to a group led by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi if Britain does not quit Iraq, Al Jazeera says.
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The leader of the radical Islamic group Al-Muhajiroun today said that extremists held in Britain - such as Abu Qatada and Abu Hamza â-hould be released in exchange for Iraq hostage Ken Bigley.
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Irelandâs government has granted British hostage, Kenneth Bigley, an Irish passport; responding to his family&#39;s calls which hopes that stressing his Irish origin will convince his kidnappers to release him.
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MANAMA: Bahrain last night joined international efforts to secure the release of a British engineer held hostage in Iraq. Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr Mohammed Abdul Ghaffar urged the kidnappers to free Ken Bigley and other hostages soon.
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LIVERPOOL, England : Britain&#39;s leading Muslim organisation dispatched two envoys to Iraq, hoping to help secure the release of a British engineer taken hostage by extremists eight days ago.
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A British hostage threatened with death by a militant Islamic group appealed to Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain yesterday to save
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A weeping British hostage was shown pleading for help between the bars of a makeshift cage in a video that surfaced Wednesday, a sobering reminder of the grim reality for at least 18 foreign captives still held by Iraqi militants.    There is wide speculation that ransoms were paid for the freedom of a dozen hostages, including two Italian aid workers...