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A German citizen is believed to have been kidnapped in Afghanistan, a German foreign ministry spokesman said Wednesday.
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An insurgent group in Iraq posted a videotape Monday that showed a German hostage who has been held for more than six months and threatened to kill him unless Germany withdrew its troops from Afghanistan within 10 days.
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The Taleban say they have kidnapped a British journalist and two Afghan nationals in south Afghanistan.
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Armed men kidnapped two Germans and two Afghans working on a dam project in central Afghanistan, police said Thursday.
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Afghan authorities have arrested three people and seized a car believed to have been used in the kidnapping of three foreigners, government and security sources say, but there was no word on the fate of the hostages.
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KABUL, Sept. 16 -- A Bangladeshi aid worker who was helping administer programs to alleviate rural poverty in Afghanistan was kidnapped on Saturday, his employer said Sunday, becoming the latest in a recent string of high-profile abductions of international workers here.
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The German foreign ministry on Wednesday said two German nationals had been reported missing in Afghanistan.
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A British woman was among three UN election officials kidnapped in Afghanistan yesterday when gunmen ran their vehicle off the road in Kabul and bundled them into a car.
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The two hostages are said to be a woman and her son A militant Islamist group in Iraq which says it has two German hostages has threaten to kill them if Berlin does not pull its troops from Afghanistan.Comment
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Afghan Taliban rebels have killed two German hostages after the German government did not respond to demands to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan, a Taliban spokesman says.
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KABUL, Sept. 16 -- A Bangladeshi aid worker helping to administer anti-poverty programs in rural Afghanistan has been kidnapped, his employer said Sunday. It was the latest in a string of abductions of international workers here.
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Three foreigners helping to organize  Afghanistan's first presidential election were kidnapped by  armed men in Kabul on Thursday, triggering fears that militants  were copying tactics used by insurgents in Iraq.
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German police were shadowing Khaled   el-Masri and exchanging information on him with U.S.   authorities before he was seized by the CIA and taken to   Afghanistan, a German federal policeman said on Thursday.
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A German national was kidnapped in western Afghanistan and it was not immediately known if the Taliban were responsible, officials said on Monday.
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A court in Germany has ordered the arrest of 13 people suspected of being involved in the abduction of a German national who says he was kidnapped and tortured by the CIA, state prosecutors said on Wednesday.
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Afghan authorities have arrested four people suspected of being involved in the kidnap of a German national, an Afghan minister was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
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Afghan Taliban rebels killed the second of two German hostages on Saturday after the end of their deadline for Germany to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan and the Afghan government to free all Taliban prisoners.