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department of the Palestinian security forces, and forced him to drive off with them on Thursday. The identity of the kidnappers was not immediately clear.
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Gunmen kidnapped the head of Iraq&#039;s Olympic committee and at least 30 employees after storming their offices in Baghdad on Saturday, police said.
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Armed men kidnapped BBC correspondent Alan Johnston after forcing him from his car in the volatile Gaza Strip on Monday, Palestinian security sources said.
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The head of an international charity's operations in Iraq was seized by kidnappers today.
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JERUSALEM, June 25 -- BBC correspondent Alan Johnston, who was kidnapped March 12 in the Gaza Strip, appeared in a new Internet video Monday wearing what he said was an explosive vest and warning that he will be killed if there is an attempt to secure his release by force.
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Palestinian security services were hunting on Tuesday for a BBC correspondent kidnapped at gunpoint by armed men in Gaza, the latest foreigner abducted in the increasingly lawless territory.
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Gunmen wearing Iraqi army uniforms seized a senior Iranian diplomat as he drove through a central Baghdad neighborhood, officials said Tuesday.
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A US-Lebanese man working for Iraq&#39;s transport ministry was kidnapped overnight from his house in the smart Baghdad neighbourhood of Mansour, police said on Wednesday.
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Gunmen in Iraqi army uniforms kidnapped a senior Iranian diplomat in Baghdad on Sunday, an Iraqi government official said on Tuesday.
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Armed Palestinians kidnapped an Israeli  Arab producer for the CNN television network from a car in Gaza  City on Monday after asking for him by name.
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Hamas security forces detain a spokesman of the group which claims to be holding BBC reporter Alan Johnston.
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An Arab Druze producer of CNN, a resident of the Galilee in Israel, was kidnapped at Arab gunpoint in Gaza City last night, and no word of his whereabouts has been heard.
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A senior advisor to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's government was abducted by unknown gunmen in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Friday, Abbas's Fatah faction said.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Palestinian gunmen seized the governor&#39;s office in a southern city on Sunday, demanding aid for families left homeless by an Israeli military operation, witnesses said.
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Up to 30 people are kidnapped from the Iraqi office of the Red Crescent aid agency in central Baghdad, officials say.
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The director of the humanitarian group CARE International has been kidnapped in Iraq, and appeared in a video aired on Arab television network Al-Jazeera.
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A spokesman for the group that claims to have kidnapped the BBCâs Gaza reporter was arrested, as were two others.