Nigerian militants say Lebanese hostage escaped
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A Lebanese hostage escaped from his captors in the remote creeks of Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta and was not freed as his employer had said, the militant group that seized the man said on Thursday.
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Militants freed around 25 kidnapped Nigerian oil workers on Wednesday but five abducted expatriates were still missing in another part of the Niger Delta after an unprecedented attack on a residential compound.
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Militants in the oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria free two Italian workers kidnapped last week.
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Nigerian troops have rounded up scores of suspected militants in their hunt for hostage-takers as one of two Germans abducted in the oil-rich Niger Delta was released.
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A Lebanese man on Wednesday became the latest foreign worker to be kidnapped in southern Nigeria, a police source said.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Gunmen attacked a Shell oil rig in the Niger Delta in southern Nigeria early on Wednesday and kidnapped five expatriates, police and security sources said.
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Nigerian gunmen attacked an  Agip oil export terminal in the Niger Delta early on Thursday  and kidnapped three expatriate workers, the commander of the  armed forces in the region told Reuters.
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Two Lebanese held hostage in Iraq for more than two months have been freed and returned home, officials said in Beirut Friday. Marwan Kassar and Mohammed Hussein, who had been working in Iraq for the Lebanese
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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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An Islamic militant group in Iraq has kidnapped a US national of Lebanese origin who works as a manager at Baghdad airport, Qatar-based al-Jazeera satellite channel reported on Friday.
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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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A LEBANESE American contractor was kidnapped overnight from his Baghdad home Iraqi police said today. Lieutenant Colonel Maan Khalaf said the contractor, who works for the US
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Gunmen opened fire Friday on a vehicle carrying foreign workers in Nigeria's unruly oil-producing south, killing one Lebanese man, while assailants on speedboats kidnapped two Italians in separate violence.
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Militants in Nigeria's oil-producing region claim responsibility for the kidnapping of four foreign workers.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - About 20 Nigerians working for a contractor to Royal Dutch Shell were abducted during a Monday attack on a convoy of boats supplying oilfields, Shell sources said on Tuesday.
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British hostage Kenneth Bigley escaped briefly from his captors shortly before they beheaded him in Iraq, insurgent sources said Saturday.
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Iraqi kidnappers have freed two Lebanese  men who were taken hostage west of Baghdad last month, Beirut's  foreign ministry said on Wednesday.