Hostage plea prompts aid closure
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The aid agency which Margaret Hassan worked for before she was kidnapped has closed down all its Iraqi operations and pleaded for her release.
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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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FOUR Iraqi religious leaders, including two imams, appealed today for the release of four aid workers - two Italians and two Iraqis - who were taken hostage in Baghdad overnight.
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Margaret Hassan, the kidnapped aid worker, has made another plea urging Britain to withdraw its troops from Iraq. The video tape plea by Hassan was aired on Al-Jazeera television.
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A fresh deadline passed tonight for the end of negotiations with a group threatening to kill a Northern Irish UN worker and two of her colleagues held hostage in Afghanistan.
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Taliban-linked kidnappers of three UN election workers, including a British woman, claimed today that a deal could be close for their release.
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A joint appeal for the release of Dublin-born humanitarian aid worker Margaret Hassan kidnapped in Iraq was issued by the Irish and Palestinian foreign ministers.
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The British-Iraqi director of CARE International who is being held hostage in Iraq made a televised plea for her life today and urged the British government to withdraw its forces from the country.
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KIDNAPPED aid worker Margaret Hassan was shown on videotape last night pleading for Britain to withdraw its troops from Iraq. The tape, broadcast on Arab TV network alJazeera, also showed her demanding the
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Aid charity Care International made an emotional plea tonight for the release of its Iraq director Margaret Hassan. The statement, read on the Arab television station Al-Jazeera by
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LIVERPOOL, England  - Britain ruled out  negotiations with the abductors of a British hostage in Iraq on  Thursday after a desperate plea for help from the hostage.
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A weeping British hostage was shown pleading for help between the bars of a makeshift cage in a video that surfaced Wednesday, a sobering reminder of the grim reality for at least 18 foreign captives still held ...
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Care International have made a televised plea to the kidnappers of Margaret Hassan, their director in Iraq, after a new videotape showed her begging Tony Blair not to send troops to Baghdad.
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HUNDREDS of disabled Iraqis demonstrated in Baghdad yesterday to demand the release of Margaret Hassan, calling her abductors âneanderthalsâ and insisting that their collapsed health system needs the British aid worker, kidnapped by insurgents last
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THE deadline set by insurgents who have threatened to execute a kidnapped Briton and two Americans ran out last night. The three were among dozens of hostages being held by militant groups.
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The aid charity Care International has appealed to the captors of its Iraq director Margaret Hassan to release her.
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A weeping British hostage was shown pleading for help between the bars of a makeshift cage in a video that surfaced Wednesday, a sobering reminder of the grim reality for at least 18 foreign captives still held by Iraqi militants.