Iraq Group Sets Ransom, Deadline for French Release
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A statement posted on a Web site  purportedly by an Iraqi group which said it was holding two  French hostages set a $5 million ransom on Monday and a 48-hour  deadline for its demands to be met.
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Iraqi militants holding two French journalists have reportedly set a 48-hour deadline for their new demands to be met, including payment of a five-million-dollar ransom.
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An Iraqi insurgency group says it has released two French journalists held hostage since August, delivering them to the French Embassy in Baghdad, the Arab-language television network Al-Jazeera reported.
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A French national who claims he has secured a deal for the release of two French reporters kidnapped in Iraq last month said Wednesday he is waiting for a US authorisation to extract the pair by air.
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A deadline set by militants who have  threatened to kill two Americans and a Briton seized in Iraq  was due to expire Monday, and more than two dozen other  hostages were also facing death unless rebel demands were met.
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The French government and Muslim community in France requested the release of two French journalists being held hostage in Iraq. Al-Jazeera TV broadcast video of the hostages and disclosed the names of the
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French government officials called for the release of two journalists kidnapped in Iraq by a group demanding that France rescind a ban on Islamic headscarves in the nation&#39;s schools, Agence
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An Islamic militant group that claimed to have kidnapped two French journalists said it would soon decide their fate and an Iraqi negotiator called the chance for their release "excellent."
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Jordan pledged Tuesday to help France secure the release of two journalists held hostage in Iraq, who are facing the imminent expiry of an ultimatum by their Islamic kidnappers.
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French officials gathered for crisis talks Tuesday to save the lives of two French journalists held hostage in Iraq, while aides to rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called for the release of the reporters as a deadline set by militants
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The French government demanded the release of two journalists kidnapped in Iraq by a group demanding that France rescind a ban on Islamic headscarves in the nation&#39;s schools within 48 hours.
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An unofficial French negotiator told a radio station Friday that two journalists held for more than a month in Iraq could be released within hours.
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A statement posted on a Web site purportedly by an Iraqi group which said it was holding two French hostages set a &#36;5 million ransom on Monday and issued a 48-hour deadline for its demands to be met.
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MILITANTS have reportedly set a 48-hour deadline after taking two French journalists hostage in Iraq and demanding the rescinding of a ban on the Islamic headscarf in French schools.
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France pressed on with efforts to save  two French journalists held hostage in Iraq on Thursday after a  deadline to rescind a law banning Muslim headscarves in state  schools passed without word from the kidnappers.
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The Kuwaiti daily which predicted the  release of two Italian hostages in Iraq said on Wednesday that  the captors had originally demanded a $5 million ransom but  settled for $1 million in the end.
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An Iraqi militant group has kidnapped two  French citizens and is demanding the French government end a  ban on Muslim headscarves to free them, Arabic television  station Al Jazeera said Saturday.