Iraq Militants Behead Hostage, Set New Deadline
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Militants beheaded an American in Iraq  and said two fellow civilian hostages would meet the same fate  within 24 hours if Washington failed to accept their demands.
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Los Angeles Times - BAGHDAD &#8212; Militants said Tuesday that they had beheaded a second American hostage in as many days and threatened to kill a British captive, increasing pressure on President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair to confront a recent wave of kidnappings of foreigners in the Iraqi capital.
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An Iraqi militant group has threatened to  behead a Turkish hostage within three days unless the United  States releases all Iraqi prisoners and Turkish nationals leave  Iraq, Al Arabiya television said on Monday.
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The second of two American hostages in Iraq has been beheaded by a militant outfit headed by Al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, reports Arabic television channel Aljazeera quoting a statement on a Muslim extremist website.
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Aides to radical Shi&#39;ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr say militants holding a US journalist hostage in Iraq will release him soon. The aides said they have been in contact with a group calling itself the Martyrs
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A statement posted on a Web site  purportedly by an Iraqi group which said it was holding two  French hostages set a $5 million ransom on Monday and issued a  48-hour deadline for its demands to be met.
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KABUL - The militant group holding three foreign UN workers captive in Afghanistan extended an ultimatum for their threatened execution on Wednesday but gave conflicting versions of a new deadline.
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Anguished relatives begged for the lives of an American and a Briton kidnapped in Iraq as the deadline passed Tuesday for another hostage to be beheaded by terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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Militants led by Washington&#39;s top foe in Iraq said they would kill an American and a Briton on Tuesday unless their demands were met, a day after they released footage showing them severing the head of another US hostage.
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An Iraqi group purportedly holding two  French journalists hostage demanded a $5 million ransom on  Monday and set a 48-hour deadline for their demands to be met.
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LONDON -- Iraqi kidnappers have beheaded a British man who was seized last month, his family said yesterday, ending what one relative called ''three long weeks of agony.&quot;
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Relatives pleaded on Monday for the release of two Americans and a Briton as a deadline loomed for their beheading. In Baghdad, two Sunni Muslim clerics from a powerful conservative group were assassinated within hours of each other.
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Iraqi militants claimed in a Web statement Tuesday to have taken an American soldier hostage and threatened to behead him in 72 hours unless the Americans release Iraqi prisoners.
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KABUL, 15 November 2004 - Jaish el-Muslimeen captors threatening to kill three UN workers held hostage in Afghanistan set a fresh deadline yesterday for their demands and blamed the United States for slowing up negotiations.
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Several insurgent groups set deadlines  for killing more than a score of hostages in Iraq -- from a  trio of American and British workers to an entire squad of 18  Iraqi soldiers -- unless their various demands are met.
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BAGHDAD Iraq promised Wednesday to release one of two high-profile women prisoners, but officials denied the decision was linked to demands by militants who purportedly killed two American hostages and are threatening to execute a Briton unless all female
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Militants who beheaded an American  hostage in Iraq said they would kill another U.S. captive and a  Briton on Tuesday if their demands were not met.