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DUBAI - The group of Abu Mussab Al Zarqawi, which has claimed the gruesome killing of foreign hostages in Iraq, threatened yesterday to execute two Americans and a Briton it is holding unless Iraqi women prisoners are freed within 48 hours.
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An Iraqi group linked to al-Qaeda threatened to kill three Western hostages within 48 hours unless Iraqi women prisoners are freed.
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The family of British hostage Kenneth Bigley is âwaiting for the worstâ tonight as his kidnappers reiterated their threats to kill him following the apparent execution of a second captive in Iraq.
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WANA, Pakistan  - Islamic militants holding two  Chinese engineers hostage in Pakistan threatened to kill one on  Monday unless security forces ended a siege of their hideout.
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The fate of a British hostage kidnapped in Baghdad was looking increasingly perilous today, after his Muslim extremist captors threatened to kill him if their demands are not met.
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Afghan militants holding three foreigners hostage have said they will kill them unless Taleban and al-Qaeda prisoners are released by Wednesday.
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An Iraqi militant group threatened in an Internet posting Wednesday to kill a Turkish hostage if his government did not close down the company that employs him.
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Militants in Iraq are threatening to kill  10 Iraqis they are holding hostage unless their U.S. company  leaves the country, according to a video tape aired by Arabic  television channels on Sunday.
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Afghan militants holding three UN workers threatened Sunday to kill their hostages if their demands were not met within three days.
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Kabul (AsiaNews/Agencies) - Afghan militants threatening to kill three foreign hostages yesterday offered to negotiate with a United Nations envoy, but warned that any rescue attempt would end in bloodshed.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban militants threatened yesterday to kill at least 18 kidnapped South Korean Christians, including 15 women, within 24 hours unless the Asian nation withdraws its 200 troops from Afghanistan.
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Gunmen holding the kidnapped aid worker Margaret Hassan have threatened to hand her over to the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi if their demands are not met within 48 hours.
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The Taliban threatened to kill 23 South Korean hostages if Afghan troops try to free them by force, as negotiations were under way to secure the release of the captives.
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An Arab television station says hostage Margaret Hassan is facing a new threat -- a possible transfer to a deadly militant group. Al-Jazeera television cites a newly-released videotape from the people currently holding Hassan.
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The group that claimed responsibility for the abduction of three UN workers in Afghanistan threatened today to kill the captives unless Nato and Afghan troops call off their search.
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Militants in Iraq are threatening to kill two Turkish hostages if their company does not withdraw from the country within three days, Turkish media reported Wednesday.
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A HARDLINE faction of the Taliban that claims to be holding Annetta Flanigan, a hostage from Northern Ireland, has threatened to kill her and two other captives if British troops do not pull out of Afghanistan, writes Tom Coghlan in Kabul.