Britain Shocked by Death of Iraq Hostage
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Washington's closest ally in Iraq was  horrified by the beheading of a British hostage there and Prime  Minister Tony Blair urged Britons not to let it undermine their  support for continued involvement in the country.
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A British hostage was killed in a military operation in Nigeria on Wednesday which released six other hostages, the Italian foreign ministry said.
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Friends and relatives attended a Roman  Catholic funeral mass in London on Saturday for British- Iraqi  hostage Margaret Hassan, believed to have been killed by her  captors in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD -- Kidnapped British aid director Margaret Hassan, whose abduction shocked even battle-hardened Iraqis, apparently has become the first female hostage to be killed by her captors, her family said yesterday.
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London - Reports of the death of Kenneth Bigley, a British national who was taken hostage in Iraq last month, &quot;are not confirmed&quot;, a senior British government minister stressed on Friday.
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The revelation by a resistance leader that three British Muslims have joined the terrorist group holding the Liverpool engineer Kenneth Bigley hostage in Iraq has not only shocked most people in Britain but could cause further fracture in the already
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Two Italian women aid workers were reported killed in Iraq and a British hostage pleaded for his life after the killing of two Americans, as the latest hostage crisis put pressure on governments with troops in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - British hostage Kenneth Bigley, who pleaded tearfully last month for Prime Minister Tony Blair to meet his kidnappers' demands, was beheaded by his captors, his brother said Friday.   "We can confirm that the family has now received absolute proof that Ken Bigley was executed by his captors," Phil Bigley said in a statement he read on national television in Britain...
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The British engineer kidnapped three weeks ago in Iraq, Kenneth Bigley, has been killed by his captors. Mr. Bigley&#39;s family Friday confirmed reports that the 62-year-old hostage was murdered by the Muslim extremist group that was holding him.
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The native city of British hostage Kenneth Bigley observed a day of mourning as his family struggled to come to terms with his execution.
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The British hostage held in Iraq by a militant group led by al-Qaida ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed Friday, pan-Arab Abu Dhabi TV reported.
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Kenneth Bigley, the Briton held hostage in Iraq by the Tawhid Wal Jihad group, has been killed, according to an Islamic Web site. The UK foreign ministry said it doubts the authenticity of the report.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates  - British hostage Kenneth Bigley has been killed by his captors in Iraq, Abu Dhabi television reported Friday. Britain and the U.S. military in Iraq said they could not confirm the report.
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Friends and relatives attended a Roman Catholic funeral mass in London on Saturday for British- Iraqi hostage Margaret Hassan, believed to have been killed by her captors in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - British hostage Kenneth Bigley, who pleaded tearfully last month for Prime Minister Tony Blair to meet his kidnappers' demands, was beheaded by his captors, a witness who saw the videotaped killing said Friday.    The witness, who asked not to be identified by name, said the tape - sent to Abu Dhabi TV - showed six hooded, armed men standing behind the kneeling Bigley, whom the witness recognized from two previous tapes released by the kidnappers in which he pleaded for his life...
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Britain's Foreign Office is investigating reports on Abu Dhabi television that Ken Bigley, a British hostage kidnapped in Baghdad last month, is dead, a spokesman said.
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BAGHDAD  - British officials said they believed Margaret Hassan, a British-Irish aid worker kidnapped in Iraq last month, had been killed by her captors after a video was issued apparently showing her murder.