MEDIA:   Kidnappers Showtime
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ROME, Oct 22  (IPS) - Kidnappers' tape tactics in broadcasting  footage of victims has won them  international attention. But are  the media right to broadcast the tapes? Or are they  serving  criminal propaganda?
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DUBAI: Al Jazeera television aired a video yesterday of three UN employees held hostage in Afghanistan by kidnappers who are threatening to kill them unless Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners are freed.
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In a scene eerily similar to the ongoing hostage-takings in Baghdad, three kidnapped United Nations election workers appeared in a new videotape aired Sunday on the al-Jazeera Arabic television station.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Al-Jazeera television says an &quot;armed group&quot; announced it kidnapped the director of CARE International&#39;s operation in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD - Kidnappers with links to al-Qaeda threatened in a videotape yesterday to behead a Hillsdale, Mich., native and two other hostages in Iraq within two days unless authorities released female prisoners from two US-run prisons.
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A group of armed men abducted a CNN producer in Gaza City on Monday. The men kidnapped producer Riad Ali after stopping a taxi he was riding in with CNN Correspondent Ben Wedeman and a CNN camerawoman.
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KUWAIT - The Kuwaiti newspaper that predicted the release of two Italian hostages in Iraq says the captors had originally demanded a US$5 million ($7.
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The Qatar-based Al-Jazeera TV channel on Saturday aired footage of a Polish woman held hostage by a militant group in Iraq calling for the withdrawal of Polish troops from the
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Al-Jazeera television has broadcast a tape of hostage Margaret Hassan pleading for the release of female prisoners in Iraq and the withdrawal of British troops.
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BOSASSO, Somalia  - A French journalist abducted by Somali gunmen wants international media watchdogs to press for his release, a Somali journalist related to the kidnappers said on Thursday.
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Arabic TV network Al-Jazeera Sunday aired video apparently showing three UN election workers taken hostage in Afghanistan and the kidnappers&#39; demand for the release of prisoners in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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A video showing the UK and US hostages, recently abducted in Iraq, was shown on Al-Jazeera television today. The two Americans and one Briton were kidnapped from a house in Baghdad on Friday by gunmen.
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World News &gt; Baghdad: Militants in Iraq say they have taken hostage a Polish woman and are demanding that Poland withdraw all its troops from the country.
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Gunmen kidnapped a Lebanese-American businessman â-he second US citizen seized this week in Baghdad â - militants released a tape Wednesday showing the beheading
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BAGHDAD -- An insurgent group that has claimed responsibility for a series of hostage-takings threatened yesterday to execute two Americans and a Briton who were kidnapped Thursday unless the United States frees female Iraqi prisoners, the Al-Jazeera satellite channel reported.
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British hostage Kenneth Bigley has been shown in a video screened on Al-Jazeera television.
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Footage is released by US and Iraqi forces claiming to depict al-Qaida militants training children under the age of 11 how to fight and kidnap