Gunmen kidnap 6 in Iraq
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Gunmen have seized six people in Iraq after a gun battle in which one guard and one of the assailants were killed. The kidnappers stormed the compound of a Saudi company in an
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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 -- Kidnappers seized six Egyptians and four Iraqis working for the country's mobile phone company, authorities said yesterday, and Muslim leaders in Britain announced plans to send negotiators to Baghdad in hopes of winning the release of hostage Kenneth Bigley.
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Up to 30 people are kidnapped from the Iraqi office of the Red Crescent aid agency in central Baghdad, officials say.
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Gunmen kidnapped a Briton and two Americans from a house in central Baghdad today, the Iraqi interior ministry and witnesses said.
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Kidnappers seized six Egyptians and four Iraqis working for the country&#39;s mobile phone company in two separate incidents, authorities said.
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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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Gunmen abducted three members of Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawiâs family from their Baghdad home and threatened they would be beheaded in two days if the siege of Fallujah was not lifted.
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Gunmen have kidnapped several foreigners in the main oil-producing region of southern Nigeria, military and industry sources said Friday.
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Gunmen dressed in military fatigues burst into the offices of the Iraqi-American Chamber of Commerce and a nearby mobile phone company Monday, seizing 26 people in a daylight raid in a mostly Shiite area of the capital.
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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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Gunmen on Tuesday kidnapped the head of the CARE humanitarian group in Iraq, a British-born woman in her 60s who has been critical of the US-led invasion of Iraq and has worked
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Gunmen kidnap many people from the Iraqi office of the Red Crescent aid agency in Baghdad.
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Dozens of people are abducted in central Baghdad by armed men dressed in military uniforms, police say.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Kidnappers seized six Egyptians and four Iraqis working for the country's mobile phone company, authorities said Friday, and Muslim leaders in Britain announced plans to send negotiators to Baghdad in hopes of winning the release of hostage Kenneth Bigley.    Gunmen abducted two of the Egyptians on Thursday in a bold raid on the firm's Baghdad office - the latest in a string of kidnappings targeting engineers working on Iraq's infrastructure, in a bid to undermine the U.S.-allied interim government...
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Gunmen kidnapped six government soldiers in a former Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan and dumped their bullet-ridden bodies in a canal, a local official said Thursday.
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Gunmen wearing camouflage uniforms seized 14 people from a computer store in Baghdad, Iraqi officials say.