Singer Cat Stevens urges Iraqi group to free Briton
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Yusuf Islam, the singer and song-writer formerly known as Cat Stevens, has urged Islamic militants in Iraq to free British hostage Kenneth Bigley, seized 10 days ago and threatened with death.
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Britain complained to the United States over the deportation of pop singer turned Islamic activist Cat Stevens, who was denied entry on national security grounds.
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MANAMA: Bahrain last night joined international efforts to secure the release of a British engineer held hostage in Iraq. Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr Mohammed Abdul Ghaffar urged the kidnappers to free Ken Bigley and other hostages soon.
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The family of a British man being held hostage in Iraq has pleaded with the prime minister to meet the captors demands and save the hostage s life.
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The leader of Iraq's Chaldean Christian community urges US forces to free ex-deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz.
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The government appealed for the release of a Briton held hostage in Iraq in a message aired on Arabic satellite television channels.
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Yusuf Islam, the British singer formerly known as Cat Stevens, has demanded an explanation from American officials who threw him off a transatlantic flight.
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Former pop singer Cat Stevens, a Muslim, will be deported to Britain because his activities could be &quot;linked to terrorism,&quot; a US official says.
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Baghdad - Two British Muslim leaders made an emotional appeal in Baghdad on Sunday for the release of British hostage Kenneth Bigley saying he was a &quot;victim like civilians in Fallujah.
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Hostage Margaret Hassan has urged Britain to withdraw its troops from Iraq and free Iraqi women prisoners, Aljazeera has reported.
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France's government and leaders of its  Muslim minority urged Iraqi militants Sunday to free two French  journalists they were holding hostage in a bid to force Paris  to revoke its ban on Muslim headscarves in schools.
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Puzzled and angry at being barred from the United States, Yusuf Islam, the singer formerly known as Cat Stevens, returned to London on Thursday vowing to find out why.
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Iraqi-British hostage Margaret Hassan has  urged Britain to withdraw its troops from Iraq and free Iraqi  women prisoners, Al Jazeera reported Wednesday.
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A statement purportedly linked to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi group posted on a website Friday urged the captors of the British aid worker Margaret Hassan in Iraq to release her &quot;unless she is proven to be a collaborator&quot;.
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Dubai - Britain&#39;s department of affairs on Sunday launched a televised appeal on an Arab satellite channel for Iraqis to help rescue British hostage Kenneth Bigley who faces a death threat along with two US kidnap victims.
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A British man held hostage in Iraq  appeared in a video on Wednesday, chained and distraught,  pleading with Prime Minister Tony Blair to save his life by  meeting his captors' demands to release Iraqi women from jail.
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Britain's ambassador to Iraq has appealed for the release of the five men kidnapped by armed militia in Baghdad.