Australians 'kidnapped' in Iraq
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Australia is investigating reports that two of its citizens have been taken hostage by  militants in Iraq.
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Australia&#39;s Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, says members of a logistics team are heading to Iraq, in case any Australians have been taken hostage.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq Sept. 16, 2004 - Gunmen kidnapped two Americans and a Briton Thursday from a house in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood where many foreign companies are based, the Interior Ministry and witnesses said.
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Australia&#39;s Prime Minister, John Howard says the government can&#39;t confirm whether any Australians are missing in Iraq. There are reports that two Australian security workers and two people described as East Asians have been kidnapped.
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Two Australian security contractors yesterday became the latest foreigners to be kidnapped in Iraq after militants apparently ambushed their convoy on a road outside Baghdad.
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BAGHDAD -- Two Italian women working for an aid agency in Iraq have been kidnapped, the agency said yesterday. Gunmen in olive-green uniforms broke into the group's Baghdad offices and took the women, along with two Iraqis, neighbors said.
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Australia&#39;s government hasn&#39;t accounted for 27 citizens in Iraq after an Islamic group said it took two Australians hostage, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A group of Iraqi policemen returning from training has been kidnapped in the western part of the country, according to police.
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Three members of Iraqi Prime Minister  Iyad Allawi's family have been kidnapped by gunmen, a spokesman  for the Iraqi interim government said on Wednesday.
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A claim by the &quot;Horror Brigades of the Islamic Secret Army&quot; that it had kidnapped two Australians in Iraq remains unverified, but the Department of Foreign Affairs says some Australians known to be in the country are still unaccounted for.
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Australia, unable to verify a report that two of its citizens had been taken hostage in Iraq, said on Wednesday it had sent a logistics team to the country and still was trying to account for all of its nationals there.
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Australia is investigating reports that two of its citizens have been taken hostage by militants in Iraq.
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An Australian man of Lebanese origin has been detained in northern Iraq by Kurdish militiamen and Australian officials are investigating whether the detainee has links to terrorists, Kurdish and Australian officials said Sunday.
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Gunmen in camouflage uniforms kidnapped about 30 Iraqis from an industrial area in central Baghdad on Thursday, police sources said.
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Australia was investigating whether a foreigner found dead in central Iraq could be one of two Australians allegedly kidnapped in the country earlier this week, officials said.
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An Australian journalist was seized by militants in Iraq for nearly 24 hours, but then released unharmed.
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An unidentified Australian journalist was held hostage in Iraq for 24 hours at the weekend before being released unharmed, Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said today.