Egypt engineers abducted in Iraq
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Four Egyptian engineers working for a mobile phone company are taken hostage in Iraq.
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Two Chinese engineers working at a  hydro-electric project in Pakistan have been kidnapped in a  region where security forces have been hunting militants linked  to al Qaeda, officials said Saturday.
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Police in Iraq say they have found the body of an Egyptian man reportedly kidnapped by militants nine days ago.
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Egyptâs foreign ministry has confirmed that six Egyptians employed by an Iraqi unit of the Egyptian telecom giant Orascom, have become the latest hostage victims in Iraq.
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Gunmen have seized two Egyptians in a raid on their Baghdad office, Iraqi officials say, the third in a series of kidnappings of foreigners in the Iraqi capital this month.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen abducted six Egyptians and four Iraqis working for Iraq's mobile phone company, seizing two in a bold raid on the firm's Baghdad office and the others outside the capital, officials said Friday, the latest in a string of kidnappings that have underscored the country's fragile security.    Also Friday, mortars exploded near the Italian Embassy in Baghdad, slightly wounding three Iraqis, the Foreign Ministry in Rome said...
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U.S. forces in Iraq stormed a house in  Baghdad on Monday and freed Egyptian telecommunications  engineers kidnapped since Sunday, the head of their Egyptian  parent company said.
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Two Italian women working for an aid agency in Iraq have been kidnapped, the agency said Tuesday. Gunmen in olive green uniforms broke into the group's Baghdad offices and took the women along with two Iraqis, neighbors said.
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Two Turkish engineers abducted by Iraqi militants were freed on Sunday after the companies they work for said they would withdraw from Iraq to save their lives, the state-run Anatolian news agency said.
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An Iraqi security official said gunmen abducted a Lebanese-American contractor who worked with the US Army in Iraq. Officials said gunmen snatched him when he answered the door at his Baghdad home overnight.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen broke into a mobile phone company office in Baghdad and seized two Egyptian employees, government officials said Friday, while the family of a British hostage shown pleading for his life on a video earlier this week awaited word on his fate.    Also Friday, mortars exploded near the Italian Embassy in Baghdad, slightly wounding three Iraqis, the Foreign Ministry in Rome said...
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_ Gunmen abducted a Lebanese-American contractor who worked with the US Army from his Baghdad home, Iraqi officials said Wednesday, while four Jordanian truck drivers were seized by assailants in a separate kidnapping.
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Six Egyptians and four Iraqis working for the country's mobile phone company are the latest kidnapped, authorities say, and Muslim leaders in Britain announce plans to send negotiators to Baghdad to try to win the release of Kenneth Bigley. More than 140 foreigners have been taken in Iraq and 26 killed. Meanwhile, insurgents fire a rocket on a Baghdad street, ...
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Gunmen in camouflage uniforms kidnapped about 30 Iraqis from an industrial area in central Baghdad on Thursday, police sources said.
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CAIRO, Egypt An Egyptian company says one of its four workers who had been kidnapped in Iraq has been freed. It says it can&#39;t give the status of the others being held hostage but says it is &quot;doing its best to secure&quot; their release.
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In one of the most chilling abductions of a wave of kidnappings that has gripped Iraq, two Italian and two Iraqi humanitarian workers of the Italian organization &quot;A Bridge to Baghdad&quot; were abducted by 20 armed men in broad daylight.
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Two Italian women working for a humanitarian group in Iraq have been kidnapped in Baghdad.