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Iraqi insurgents yesterday kidnapped an American and up to five others in an audacious attack on a house in western Baghdad. An interior ministry source told the Guardian the militants approached the villa
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BAGHDAD, SEPTEMBER 16: Gunmen kidnapped two Americans and a Briton from a house in an affluent Baghdad neighbourhood on Thursday, the latest in a nearly six-month campaign of abductions of foreigners in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD -- Gunmen stormed the compound of a Saudi company in a fashionable Baghdad neighbourhood yesterday, seizing an American, a Nepalese and four Iraqis after a gun battle in which a guard and one of the assailants were killed, police said.
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A team of kidnappers grabbed two Americans and a Briton in a dawn raid on their home Thursday -- a bold abduction that underscores the increasing danger for foreigners in the
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Gunmen have kidnapped a Briton and two Americans from a house in an affluent central Baghdad neighbourhood, the latest in a nearly six-month campaign of abductions of foreigners in Iraq.
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Gunmen kidnapped a group of foreign oil workers on Friday, including three Americans and four Britons, in Nigeria's unruly southern petroleum-producing region, officials said.
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BAGHDAD -- Gunmen kidnapped a Lebanese-American entrepreneur, the second US citizen seized this week in Baghdad, and videotape yesterday showed the beheadings of three Iraqi National Guardsmen and an Iraqi officer.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen kidnapped two Americans and a Briton from a house in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood at dawn Thursday, a brazen attack that brought to eight the number of Western civilians held hostage in Iraq.    Ten assailants in a minivan pulled up a tree-lined street in the al-Mansour district - home to many embassies and foreign companies - and snatched the three from their walled, two-story house, said Col...
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BAGHDAD -- US forces captured two senior figures in Al Qaeda's branch in Iraq, the US military said yesterday, and one of Turkey's richest businessmen was reported kidnapped, appearing in a video along with a weeping employee saying they were being held hostage.
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The US embassy confirmed Thursday that two Americans and one Briton were kidnapped in Baghdad. &quot;Two American citizens, Jack Hensley and Eugene &#39;Jack&#39; Armstrong, were kidnapped
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Kidnappers seized two Americans and a Briton from their central Baghdad villa at dawn yesterday, in a bold raid that could further limit the mobility of foreigners in the Iraqi capital.
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Thursday September 16: Kenneth Bigley and two Americans - ' Jack Hensley and Eugene Armstrong - ' are seized by militants in a dawn raid in the wealthy Al-Mansour district of Baghdad.
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An Israeli Arab working with the US TV channel CNN was kidnapped by armed Palestinians in Gaza City on Monday. Reports said the abductors blocked a taxi carrying the CNN staff
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Two Americans and a Briton were kidnapped from their residence in the Mansour district of Baghdad by unknown gunmen this morning, the US embassy there said in an e-mailed statement from the Iraqi capital.
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A Briton was tonight missing with two American colleagues after they were seized by gunmen from their house in Baghdad. The three were hauled away by militants without a shot
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Gunmen kidnapped two Americans and a Briton Thursday from a house in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood where many foreign companies are based, the Interior Ministry and witnesses said.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - An American and three other foreigners were kidnapped Monday from their office in western Baghdad &quot;in an exchange of fire,&quot; the Interior Ministry spokesman said.