Humiliated and impotent, every Iraqi is a hostage now
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They sit in their solitary cells all day, uncharged with any crime. No family member, no friend, no lawyer may visit. Their freedom depends on a callous game of Pentagon roulette.
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A British hostage pleaded for his government to save his life in a new video aired Wednesday on Arab television after the release of two Italian women and 10 other hostages. In Baghdad, U.S. and Iraqi forces raided suspected insurgent hideouts, sparking clashes along a street in the heart of the capital.
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Powerful Shiite leader says he plans to lead a mass demonstration today to end fighting. â¢ Iraqi hostage: Militants said Wednesday they had kidnapped the brother-in-law of Iraqi Defense Minister Hazem Shaalan
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Two Americans and a Briton were kidnapped at gunpoint from their smart Baghdad home, as the two main powers behind last year's controversial invasion became the latest victims in a five-month hostage crisis.
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The country's interim government is being besieged by mounting criticism from every sector of society.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - 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 by Iraqi militants.    On Thursday, U.S...
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WASHINGTON - Iraqi terrorists sawed off the head of American hostage Eugene Armstrong yesterday and posted a grisly videotape of the slaughter on the Internet in the latest act of savagery against Western workers.
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A Polish woman was taken hostage by an Iraqi armed group, the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera TV channel reported on Thursday. The group, calling itself Abu Bakr Siddiq Al-Salafiya, called
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Two Macedonians taken hostage by a militant group were reported to have been beheaded in Iraq yesterday. However, the first Australian kidnap victim in the country was freed after 36 hours in captivity.
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Farcical. Lamentable. Simply dangerous. It seems no words are too strong to express France's outrage with a lawmaker who embarked on what the government insists was a private mission to free three hostages in Iraq.
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The news that 12 Nepalese hostages in Iraq have been killed has shocked everyone in the country. Ever since the first images of the hostages pleading for their lives was aired on television
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Suspected Iraqi insurgents have demanded the release of Abu Ghraib prisoners and a huge ransom in exchange for the freedom of an American and a Filipino taken hostage last week in Baghdad, Philippine officials said Tuesday.
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Iraqi security forces are arbitrarily arresting people and systematically torturing and abusing detainees, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Tuesday.
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Insurgents in Iraq have kidnapped more than 100 foreigners in their campaign to drive out coalition forces and hamper reconstruction:
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Insurgents in Iraq have kidnapped dozens of people in their campaign to drive out coalition forces and hamper reconstruction:
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Along with all the other problems in Iraq, now comes analogy fatigue. The latest comparison is the most preposterous
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Iraqi officials were fed up with his deferential treatment of the former dictator, but the U.S. was blindsided