Iraq Clerics Deny Hassan Kidnapping Role
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Hard-line clerics in the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah said Sunday they were not responsible for kidnapping British aid worker Margaret Hassan and appealed for her release.
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Margaret Hassan, who&#39;s head of Care International&#39;s operations in Iraq, was taken in capital Baghdad by an Iraqi group who haven&#39;t named themselves.
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A senior Sunni cleric was kidnapped and killed in the Shiite slum of Sadr City in Baghdad, said a spokesman for the Committee of the Muslim Scholars on Monday.
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Insurgent commanders in the Iraqi city of Falluja say they are not holding hostage Margaret Hassan, an aide worker who holds British and Iraqi citizenship, and condemned her kidnapping.
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An influential Sunni Muslim cleric who once condoned attacks on U.S. civilians in Iraq has issued a religious edict saying it is permissible under Islam to kidnap in wartime &#151; but not to kill the hostages.
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Confusion surrounded the fate of the Iraq aid worker Margaret Hassan last night after main rebel groups denied being involved with her kidnap.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - The chairman of a Turkish construction company whose employees were released by kidnappers said Tuesday his firm will not withdraw from Iraq because it was unclear whether the abductions were politically motivated.    Ten employees of the Turkish firm VINSAN were freed by their abductors and arrived at the Turkish embassy in Baghdad...
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The candidate list endorsed by Iraq's top Shiite cleric is likely to emerge as the dominant political group in Sunday's election. But his followers said Monday they aren't looking to create a cleric-led Islamic state, and expectations are they won't be strong enough to govern on their own.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq  Saying their rebel Shiite cleric opposes abductions, top aides to Muqtada al-Sadr appealed to kidnappers to free a Western journalist they are threatening to kill unless US forces ...
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Iraq's foreign minister said on Wednesday he suspected Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army militia was behind the abduction of five Britons from a government building in Baghdad.
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BAGHDAD, Aug. 20 (Xinhuanet) -- A top aide to Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr denied a government announcement that Iraqi police entered Imam Ali shrine in Najaf on Friday, Al-Jazeera TV channel reported.
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AN Iraqi cleric has said he met British hostage Ken Bigley, who is being held in Baghdad.
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A cleric allegedly holding women and children hostage at an Islamabad mosque has dropped demands for safe passage and proposed that he be kept under house arrest, a minister said late Monday.
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Care International charity says its chief of operations in Iraq has been kidnapped in Baghdad. A spokeswoman told Reuters on Tuesday that Margaret Hassan, who has been working
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- CARE International said the director of its operation in Iraq has been kidnapped. CARE said Margaret Hassan -- said to be an Iraqi national -- was abducted Tuesday morning in Baghdad and it does not know why.
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BAGHDAD, Aug. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- Iraq&#39;s radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr refused to meet a delegation of Iraqi political and religious leaders in the holy city of Najaf, CNN reported.
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Charity Care International says its British-born head of operations in Iraq has been kidnapped in Baghdad. A spokeswoman told Reuters that Margaret Hassan, who has been working for the charity