Eight More Seized in Iraq as Rash of Kidnappings Continues
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Besides hostage-takings by insurgent groups, many criminal gangs in Iraq have been kidnapping people for ransom.
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Militants piled more pressure on  Washington's military allies in Iraq on Thursday, seizing a  Polish woman and holding a Japanese man under death threat.
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The kidnapping and killing of truck drivers by Iraqi insurgents continued Sunday as at least four more men were taken hostage and the body of an Egyptian man was found.
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US forces did not stop raiding Al Falluja, booby-trapped cars continued to explode in Iraqi cities, killing and injuring many Iraqis, and Iraqis continued to be kidnapped or assassinated.
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Iraq&#39;s hostage crisis continued unabated yesterday, with one group of insurgents claiming that it had killed 11 Iraqi national guardsmen, another saying it had abducted
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Gunmen abducted six Egyptians 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.
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BAGHDAD: More than 3,000 US and Iraqi troops launched an operation in the southern approaches to Baghdad yesterday, seizing a possible insurgent training camp and capturing more than 160 suspected rebels, the US military command said.
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A US Embassy spokesman said Tuesday that an American, a Nepalese, a Filipino and an Iraqi remain hostages after a kidnapping raid Monday night in Baghdad.
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The Arab news network Al-Jazeera showed footage Thursday of 10 new hostages seized in Iraq by militants. Al-Jazeera said the 10 six Iraqis, two Lebanese and two Indonesian women were taken by The Islamic Army in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- An al-Qaida-linked Sunni group claimed Friday that it had kidnapped 18 government workers and soldiers in retaliation for the alleged rape of a Sunni woman by members of the Shiite-dominated police force.
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Gunmen in police uniforms kidnapped at least three Western lecturers in Baghdad on Tuesday, a witness told Reuters, as eight more U.S. soldiers were reported killed in the deadliest month this year.
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Several Westerners, including four Britons, are reportedly kidnapped from a finance ministry building in Baghdad.
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Insurgents in Iraq have kidnapped more than 160 foreigners. Those held are:
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US and Iraqi government forces have captured scores of suspected insurgents and seized an enormous stockpile of weapons and explosives during anti-insurgent operations in Iraq.
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Insurgents in Iraq have kidnapped more than 120 foreigners in their campaign to drive out coalition forces and hamper reconstruction:
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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.
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BAGHDAD: Eight Egyptian and Iraqi employees of an Egyptian telecommunications company were the latest kidnapping victims in Iraq yesterday as the family of British hostage Kenneth Bigley anxiously awaited news of his fate.