Call Made from Phone of Abducted Italian in Iraq
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A friend of Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena, who was kidnapped in Baghdad on Friday, received a call on Saturday from Sgrena's telephone but it was unclear who was at the other end of the line.
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A Northern Ireland woman held hostage in Afghanistan has telephoned her husband, the BBC understands.
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The husband of a high-profile humanitarian worker kidnapped in Iraq is pleading for her release, as CARE International suspends its operations in the country.
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Hassan, an aid worker, was kidnapped in Iraq last month. She was the director of CARE International in Iraq and had lived in Iraq for 30 years.
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An Italian journalist taken hostage in Baghdad made an emotional appeal for her life and called on foreign forces to withdraw from the country in a tape released by insurgents on Wednesday.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Six Egyptian engineers working for the mobile telephone company that provides service to central Iraq have been abducted in the past several days, prompting a company official to warn that the phone network would shut down if its remaining
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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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Visiting Italian Foreign Minister made a fresh call here Monday on kidnappers of the two Italian hostages and other nationals held in Iraq to let them go, the Kuwait News Agency reported.
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The Italian foreign minister will travel to the Middle East in an effort to secure the release of two Italian women aid workers kidnapped in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Kidnappers seized six Egyptians and four Iraqis working for the country's mobile phone company, authorities said Friday, and Muslim leaders in Britain announced plans to send negotiators to Baghdad in hopes of winning the release of hostage Kenneth Bigley.    Gunmen abducted two of the Egyptians on Thursday in a bold raid on the firm's Baghdad office - the latest in a string of kidnappings targeting engineers working on Iraq's infrastructure, in a bid to undermine the U.S.-allied interim government...
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen broke into a mobile phone company office in Baghdad and seized two Egyptian employees, government officials said Friday, while the family of a British hostage shown pleading for his life on a video earlier this week awaited word on his fate.    Also Friday, mortars exploded near the Italian Embassy in Baghdad, slightly wounding three Iraqis, the Foreign Ministry in Rome said...
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Two Italian female aid workers abducted in Iraq may be in the hands of Al-Qaeda's number two operative Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi.
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THE Federal Government is still trying to contact 55 Australians in Iraq as it continues attempts to confirm reports that two civilians have been kidnapped.
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An Italian envoy flies to the Middle East to seek help in securing the release of two women held hostage in Iraq.
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An Italian journalist taken hostage in  Baghdad this month made an emotional appeal for her life and  called on foreign forces to withdraw from the country in a tape  released by insurgents on Wednesday.
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ROME, Italy -- Italy&#39;s foreign minister has flown to the Middle East in an attempt to secure the release of two female aid workers taken hostage in Iraq.
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FORWARD OPERATING BASE KALSU, Iraq -- The man had just finished explaining to U.S. soldiers that he had no connection to insurgents when his cellphone rang. An Army interpreter picked up, pretending to be the phone's owner.