Iraq says officers held over diplomat's kidnapping
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Four Iraqi military officers are being held over the kidnapping this week of an Iranian diplomat in Baghdad, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said on Wednesday.
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Three Iraqis accused of planning an attack on Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, who is visiting Germany, have been arrested by German police.
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Iraq announced the capture of a senior  aide to leading militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Monday, hours  after Zarqawi claimed responsibility for a suicide car bombing  near the offices of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi.
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U.S. and Iraqi troops on Thursday detained the deputy health minister, a follower of a radical Shiite cleric, a spokesman said.
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Gunmen wearing Iraqi army uniforms seized a senior Iranian diplomat as he drove through a central Baghdad neighborhood, officials said Tuesday.
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Iraqi forces have captured a senior  aide to al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the government said  Monday.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraqi and U.S. officials detained a senior Health Ministry official accused of being corrupt and having close ties with a violent militia group, according to the U.S. military and the Iraqi minister of health.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen abducted six Egyptians and four Iraqis working for Iraq's mobile phone company, seizing two in a bold raid on the firm's Baghdad office and the others outside the capital, officials said Friday, the latest in a string of kidnappings that have underscored the country's fragile security.    Also Friday, mortars exploded near the Italian Embassy in Baghdad, slightly wounding three Iraqis, the Foreign Ministry in Rome said...
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Insurgents in Iraq have kidnapped more than 150 foreigners. Those reported held are:
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U.S. and Iraqi forces detained the deputy health minister during a raid on the Health Ministry building in central Baghdad on Thursday, a ministry spokesman and witnesses said.
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Gunmen in Iraqi army uniforms kidnapped a senior Iranian diplomat in Baghdad on Sunday, an Iraqi government official said on Tuesday.
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Kidnappers seized the British-Iraqi head of an international charity group in Baghdad Tuesday and later she was shown sitting anxiously and alone in a video broadcast by an Arabic television station.
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Iraq's health minister, who is aligned to a powerful Shiite militia, claimed Sunday that U.S. forces arrested seven of his personal guards in a surprise pre-dawn raid on his office. The reason for the alleged arrests was unclear.
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A Sunni police chief praised by U.S. forces for clearing his city of insurgents has been arrested following an investigation into alleged murder, corruption and crimes against the Iraqi people, the U.S. military said Wednesday.
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Gunmen have seized two Egyptians in a raid on their Baghdad office, Iraqi officials say, the third in a series of kidnappings of foreigners in the Iraqi capital this month.
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Italy is investigating whether an Italian journalist abducted in Iraq was seized by insurgents or by ordinary criminals hoping for a ransom, a top Foreign Ministry official said Sunday.
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U.S. Marines have arrested four Iraqi men in connection with the kidnapping of U.S. journalist Jill Carroll, who was freed last March after 82 days in captivity, a U.S. spokesman said Wednesday.