Blair vows to support Iraq, aid workers seized
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair pledged on Sunday to support Iraq's government as it battles instability underscored when gunmen carried out a mass kidnapping at a Red Crescent office in the capital.
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Aid charity Care International made a televised plea to the kidnappers of Iraq director Margaret Hassan after a new videotape showed her tearfully begging Tony Blair not to send troops to Baghdad.
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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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Britain will do all it can to help free five UK citizens kidnapped in Baghdad, Prime Minister Tony Blair says.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain offered help for the Lebanese Army and vowed to renew efforts to bring peace to the Middle East.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair said he&#39;s doing what he can to help a hostage being held in Iraq. Militants released another videotape of Kenneth Bigley today, in which he&#39;s shown sobbing in a makeshift cage.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair made  a surprise first visit to Baghdad on Tuesday to meet Iraqi  Prime Minister Iyad Allawi and show support for Iraq's  elections scheduled for January.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Iraqi counterpart Iyad Allawi said their governments were working closely together to try to free a British hostage held by gunmen in Iraq.
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London - Prime Minister Tony Blair is doing &quot;everything he possibly can&quot; to save the British engineer kidnapped in Iraq, Blair&#39;s deputy said on Tuesday as the hostage&#39;s family took encouragement from an offer of help by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair arrived in Baghdad on Sunday to lend support to the Iraqi government, which is under pressure from Washington to do more to stem worsening sectarian violence.
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Iraq's President Ghazi Yawar pledges to do all he can to help secure the release of two kidnapped Italian women aid workers.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair, on a flying visit to Baghdad, has praised Iraqi election officials as &quot;heroes&quot; and vowed that a vote would take place as scheduled next month.
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BAGHDAD - Iraqi colleagues of kidnapped aid worker Margaret Hassan say they are deeply worried that Tony Blair&#39;s repeated pledge to &#39;save&#39; her is, in fact, putting her life in increased danger.
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TONY BLAIR flew secretly to Baghdad yesterday to deliver a passionate call to the Iraqi people to defy the bombers, and promised that Britain would never give up the fight to bring them democracy.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair warned against &quot;raising false hopes&quot; for an engineer held hostage in Iraq.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair has called for international coordination in response to the devastation caused by the &quot;terrible catastrophe&quot; in southeast Asia,pledging Britain
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 17 -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair arrived in Baghdad Sunday on an unannounced visit and said his country's troops will remain in Iraq "until the job is done."