Britain Stands Firm as Hostage Pleads
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The British and Iraqi governments said on Thursday they would not bow to the demands of militants threatening to kill a British captive, despite a video message from the hostage pleading for his life.
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A British hostage in Iraq has again appealed to British Prime Minister Tony Blair to help free him. The videotape aired on Wednesday left his family relieved
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A weeping British hostage was shown pleading for help between the bars of a makeshift cage in a video that surfaced Wednesday, a sobering reminder of the grim reality for at least 18 foreign captives still held ...
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The UK leader says he is determined to "stand firm" in the face of bloodshed and insecurity in Iraq.
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London, Sept. 23 (NNN): Britain has ruled out negotiations with militants holding a British man in Iraq, after the hostage made a video appeal to Prime Minister Tony Blair to help save his life.
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Iraq&#39;s foreign minister says his country is doing what it can to secure the release of two Americans and a British national taken hostage in Baghdad Thursday, but will not give in to kidnappers&#39; demands.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Authorities insisted on Thursday that they won't give in to militants' demands to free female Iraqi prisoners despite the plea of a tearful British hostage begging Britain to save his life in a video released by his captors.    Meanwhile, Iraq's most powerful Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, said that increasing violence must not be used as a pretext for delaying elections scheduled for late January...
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LONDON -- A videotape broadcast yesterday showed a British hostage in Iraq shackled in a cage and wearing an orange jumpsuit, pleading with Prime Minister Tony Blair to help save his life and accusing him of not doing enough to secure his freedom.
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Britain stood firm Wednesday over the &quot;red lines&quot; it will defend at a crunch EU summit, as Prime Minister Tony Blair bids to go out on a high note in his international swansong.
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Al Qaeda-linked militants in Iraq  beheaded a British hostage despite last-ditch secret appeals  from the government in London, Britain said on Friday.
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CAGED and shackled, British hostage Ken Bigley, who is held in Iraq, again begged British Prime Minister Tony Blair to save his life yesterday.
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The UK yesterday made it clear that it would not deal with Islamic extremists in Iraq holding engineer Kenneth Bigley, despite a dramatic appeal from the hostage begging Prime Minister Tony Blair to intervene and save his life.
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The British and Iraqi governments said they would not bow to the demands of militants threatening to kill a British hostage, despite tearful pleas from the captive and his family.
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Hundreds of Britons held a candlelit vigil on Tuesday for a hostage threatened with beheading in Iraq amid reports that his abductors had killed a second U.S. captive.
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The captors of BBC reporter Alan Johnston insisted on Tuesday they were not prepared to negotiate and again demanded Britain and Jordan free Muslim prisoners in exchange for the correspondent.
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A British man held hostage in Iraq  appeared in a video on Wednesday, chained and distraught,  pleading with Prime Minister Tony Blair to save his life by  meeting his captors' demands to release Iraqi women from jail.
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Britain's government is willing to talk to the kidnappers of a British engineer, Prime Minister Tony Blair said Thursday, but officials stressed they would not pay a ransom or meet any political demands to ...