Former Taliban minister behind UN kidnappings
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A former Taliban sports minister is among the leaders of the group holding three United Nations workers, including Annetta Flanigan from Northern Ireland, as hostages in Afghanistan.
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Taliban insurgents have kidnapped four staff of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) southwest of the Afghan capital Kabul, but will release them soon, a Taliban spokesman said on Thursday.
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The first Westerners were kidnapped in Afghanistan yesterday when three UN election officials were bundled into a car by gunmen who ran their vehicle off the road in the capital Kabul.
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A kidnapped UN worker may have been allowed to contact her family in NI, reports from Afghanistan suggest.
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Militants holding three foreign United Nations workers in Afghanistan said that they had held negotiations with officials from the Afghan government and the United
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A British hotelier said Thursday he had been detained over the kidnapping of three U.N. election workers in Afghanistan and claimed to have helped negotiate their release from the clutches of Taliban-linked militants.
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Afghanistan&#39;s former king honored Thursday UN workers held hostage for nearly a month after helping run the country&#39;s first free elections, while the United Nations urged a full investigation of the kidnapping.
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By Channel NewsAsia&#39;s Philippines Bureau Chief Twink Macaraig. MANILA : Time is running out for three hostages snatched by a Taliban splinter group in Afghanistan.
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A British hotelier and cameraman has said Afghan authorities tried to get him to confess to involvement in the kidnapping of three UN hostages.
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17 November 2004 -- Afghanistan&#39;s Interior Ministry believes three UN workers abducted nearly three weeks ago in Afghanistan are probably still being held in the area.
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Pakistani security forces have arrested a former Taleban defence minister, intelligence officials say.
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A man who launched a militant Islamic group to fight U.S. forces in Afghanistan has been arrested in connection with the kidnapping of three U.N. workers there in October, a senior Pakistani Cabinet minister said Saturday.
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Annetta Flanigan from Northern Ireland, Filipino Angelito Nayan and Kosovan Shqipe Habibi were kidnapped in the Afghan capital, Kabul, last week.
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Mullah Obaidullah is the most important Taliban member to be captured since the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The reported capture of the former Taliban defense minister will probably boost Pakistan's antiterrorism credentials and deliver a setback to the insurgent movement, but some doubt it will curb militant violence.
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A former congressman and delegate to the United Nations was indicted Wednesday as part of a terrorist fundraising ring that allegedly sent more than $130,000 to an al-Qaida and Taliban supporter who has threatened U.S. and international troops in Afghanistan.
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A militant Islamic group claiming responsibility for kidnapping three foreigners working for the United Nations in Afghanistan has provided proof it has the hostages, diplomatic and security sources said on Saturday.