Hostage Takers Accelerate Efforts To Undermine Reconstruction Work
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Hostage takers in Iraq have stepped up their kidnappings aimed at driving out foreign companies involved in reconstruction projects.
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Insurgents in Iraq have kidnapped more than 150 foreigners in their campaign to drive out coalition forces and hamper reconstruction:
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A NEW breed of kidnappers, described as &#39;strategic terrorists&#39;, in Iraq has led experts with experience of negotiating hostage releases to admit that lessons from the past may no longer apply.
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The assault on the city was accompanied by a pledge from U.S. officials to rebuild it after the offensive was complete. But keeping that promise may prove more difficult than anticipated.
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Â· Children among captives forced to work for no payÂ· Local officials accused of colluding with traffickers
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Convincing Afghans to oppose the Taliban depends on fulfilling promises of aid and reconstruction.
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Commanders are arming groups that have promised to fight militants who have been their allies in the past.
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Private security contractors do indispensable work in Iraq, but the muscle-bound showiness associated with these hired guns, and lack of control over them, is drawing criticism.
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CRAWFORD, Texas  - President Bush, under  election-year pressure from Democrats and some fellow  Republicans over Iraq, promised on Saturday to step up the pace  of spending on reconstruction contracts in that country despite  the violence.
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Efforts to investigate and punish those responsible for mistreatment of detainees in Iraq are hampering current military intelligence-gathering operations, prompting extra caution by interrogators
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Lawmakers are pushing to expand the U.S. guest worker program, but labor experts say workers suffer abuses.
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The effort is changing into a terror war of its own.
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Kidnappings by Muslim militants have driven non-Iraqis and those working with them into hiding to a degree not experienced since the nationwide uprising in April kept most foreigners locked inside their compounds.
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Militants appear to have planned their seizure of a Russian school carefully, starting months earlier and sneaking weapons into the building in advance. Still, some of the raiders may not have known what they were getting into and were appalled to find they were holding children hostage.
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U.S.-funded reconstruction in Iraq is gaining pace in some areas, albeit on a smaller scale than hoped, despite mounting attacks and intimidation by insurgents, said a senior U.S. official on Wednesday.
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Nigerian security agents have stepped up efforts to secure the release of four foreign oil and gas workers who were taken prisoner this week in the restive Niger Delta.
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BAGHDAD -- Insurgents are now using unwitting kidnap victims as bombers -- seizing them, booby-trapping their cars without their knowledge, then releasing them only to blow up the vehicles by remote control, the Defense Ministry warned yesterday.