Kidnappers Don't Want To Kill Me
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BRITISH hostage Ken Bigley has branded Tony Blair a liar in a new video recording released by his kidnappers in Iraq today.
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A group threatening to kill three kidnapped foreigners working for the United Nations in Afghanistan has denied extending the deadline for the United States to release all Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners.
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The Afghan Government has said it believes that three kidnapped UN workers are in the hands of criminals and not the Taliban-linked militants who have threatened to kill them.
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The group that claimed responsibility for the abduction of three UN workers in Afghanistan threatened today to kill the captives unless Nato and Afghan troops call off their search.
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The heavily armed militants holding hundreds of hostages at a Russian school for a third day today have made no public demands and authorities say it is not yet clear what they want - but analysts suggest the main goal may be to show their might.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Authorities insisted 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.    The captive, Kenneth Bigley, appealed to British Prime Minister Tony Blair to intervene...
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Authorities insisted 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.
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Militants holding Alan Johnston says he will not be freed until their demands are met.
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Three UN workers abducted almost three weeks ago in Afghanistan are probably being held by criminals and not by a Taliban splinter group that has threatened to kill them, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday.
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The employer of two Chinese engineers  kidnapped in Pakistan was hopeful they would be released as  their abductors were targeting neither the company nor Chinese,  a spokesman for the firm said on Monday.
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Kidnappers threatening to kill a Northern Irish woman in Afghanistan were today awaiting a response to their demand for a prisoner exchange.
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VIENNA -- An Austrian teen held captive for eight years told yesterday how the thought of escaping kept her alive, but that she feared fleeing might provoke her kidnapper into killing her and others.
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The family of British hostage Kenneth Bigley have made an appeal to his kidnappers not to harm him, as the deadline for their demands approaches.
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ROME, Oct 22  (IPS) - Kidnappers' tape tactics in broadcasting  footage of victims has won them  international attention. But are  the media right to broadcast the tapes? Or are they  serving  criminal propaganda?
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With time running out to save a British  hostage in Iraq, U.S. officials said on Wednesday they were not  about to free female Iraqi prisoners as demanded by an al Qaeda  ally whose group has already beheaded two Americans.
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Many contracting executives are so concerned about the safety of employees that they refuse to speak publicly on the topic. Privately, they say that the risk of kidnapping impairs their operations severely.
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Militants threatened to decapitate two Americans and a Briton being held hostage unless their demands were met within 48 hours. In northern Iraq a car bomb killed at least 21 people and wounded 67 yesterday.