Militia suspected on Iraq kidnap
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A Shia militia group is thought to be behind the kidnapping of five Britons in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Militants beheaded three hostages said to be Iraqi Kurd militiamen, showing their deaths in a video posted on a Web site Sunday and denouncing Kurdish political parties for cooperating with Americans in Iraq.    In a separate incident, a group claimed to have kidnapped 25 members of the Iraqi National Guard, and a report on the Arabic station Al-Jazeera said the soldiers were threatened with death unless a detained Shiite leader is freed within 48 hours...
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US troops in Iraq say they have arrested a suspected leader of a Shia militia group allegedly backed by Iran.
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An Iraqi militant group said it had  kidnapped 10 people, including two Indonesian women, who work  for an electronics firm, Al Jazeera television reported on  Thursday.
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Insurgents in Iraq have kidnapped more than 150 foreigners. Those reported held are:
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Hundreds of militiamen were arrested today when police entered the Imam Ali Mosque, but rebel Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr was not found, Iraqi officials said.
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BAGHDAD, Oct. 28 -- Eleven tribal leaders who had banded with U.S. troops to fight the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq were kidnapped Sunday morning, the latest in a string of such attacks, fellow tribesmen said.
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BAGHDAD -- An insurgent group that has claimed responsibility for a series of hostage-takings threatened yesterday to execute two Americans and a Briton who were kidnapped Thursday unless the United States frees female Iraqi prisoners, the Al-Jazeera satellite channel reported.
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Iraq's health minister, who is aligned to a powerful Shiite militia, claimed Sunday that U.S. forces arrested seven of his personal guards in a surprise pre-dawn raid on his office. The reason for the alleged arrests was unclear.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Kidnappers seized six Egyptians and four Iraqis working for the country's mobile phone company, authorities said Friday, and Muslim leaders in Britain announced plans to send negotiators to Baghdad in hopes of winning the release of hostage Kenneth Bigley.    Gunmen abducted two of the Egyptians on Thursday in a bold raid on the firm's Baghdad office - the latest in a string of kidnappings targeting engineers working on Iraq's infrastructure, in a bid to undermine the U.S.-allied interim government...
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The terror group led by Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claimed responsibility today for kidnapping and then releasing three members of Iraqâs interim prime minister Iyad Allawiâs family.
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An Iraqi militant group claiming to have kidnapped two Indonesian women said it would release them if Jakarta freed a Muslim cleric detained on suspected terror links, Al Jazeera television reported Saturday.
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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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A militant group has abducted 11 members of the Iraqi National Guard, said a statement posted on the group&#39;s website on Tuesday.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct. 17 - A government plan to entice Iraq&#39;s biggest Shiite militia to turn in its weapons in return for cash here has brought in enough arms in its first week that Iraqi officials extended
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A hitherto unknown militant group says it has kidnapped a Polish woman in Iraq and is demanding that Poland withdraw its forces, Al Jazeera television reports.
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BAGHDAD, March 2 -- In the photos, the 18 men were blindfolded, their hands tied behind their backs. They appeared Friday on the Web site of a Sunni insurgent group that said it had kidnapped the men to avenge the alleged rape of a Sunni woman by members of Iraq's Shiite-dominated police force.