Al Qaeda group would release CARE hostage
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CAIRO, Egypt -- The insurgent group Al Qaeda in Iraq called Friday for the release of Margaret Hassan, a kidnapped charity leader, and said it would free her if she fell into their hands.
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Militants threatening to kill three foreign hostages in Afghanistan said they would give officials until Friday to meet their demands that the United Nations withdraw from the country and the US release Guantanamo Bay prisoners
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The suspects were planning to use explosives to free an Al Qaeda sympathizer from prison, officials said.
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The British government Friday urgedthe kidnappers in Iraq to release Margaret Hassan, director of CARE International in the country, after her video was aired by Arabian-language TV channel al-Jazeera.
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Al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's  militant group threatened to behead a Japanese hostage it said  worked with Japan's forces in Iraq if Tokyo did not withdraw  its troops from the country within 48 hours.
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An Islamist group has released 18 Iraqi  soldiers it had captured and threatened to kill unless an aide  to Shi'ite rebel cleric Moqtada al-Sadr was released, Arabic  television Al Jazeera reported Monday.
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A militant group headed by al Qaeda ally  Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said it would kill a British hostage  unless women prisoners in Iraq were freed, a statement on the  group's Web site said on Tuesday.
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ISLAMIC Relief USA, part of the Islamic Relief Worldwide charity and development group, today called for the release of Margaret Hassan, employed by CARE Australia as head of CARE&#39;s humanitarian relief operations in Iraq.
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MILITANTS holding three UN workers hostage in Afghanistan offered today to consider extending a three-day deadline for their beheading.
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Al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's militant group threatened to behead a Japanese hostage it said worked with Japan's forces in Iraq if Tokyo did not withdraw its troops from the country within 48 hours.
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An Iraqi insurgent group is expected to start mediating with the captors of British hostage Kenneth Bigley for his possible release, a Kuwaiti newspaper says, citing militant sources.
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BAGHDAD: A militant group headed by Al Qaeda ally Abu Musab Al Zarqawi warned early this morning it would kill a British hostage unless women prisoners in Iraq were freed.
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A MESSAGE claiming to be from a group led by the Islamic militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has called for the release of Margaret Hassan, the British charity worker held hostage in Iraq.
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An Iraqi group said Friday it was holding a US journalist hostage in Iraq but would release him Saturday because he was opposed to US administration policies, according to a statement on the internet.
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ATLANTA - CARE USA has forwarded a statement from Care International&#39;s office in Amman, Jordan, calling for the release of Margaret Hassan, who was seized by gunmen on Tuesday in Baghdad.
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BAGHDAD - Kidnappers with links to al-Qaeda threatened in a videotape yesterday to behead a Hillsdale, Mich., native and two other hostages in Iraq within two days unless authorities released female prisoners from two US-run prisons.
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A group led by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab  al-Zarqawi threatened to behead a Japanese hostage it said  worked with Japanese forces in Iraq if Tokyo did not withdraw  its forces from the country within 48 hours.