Kidnappers demand foreign troops quit Iraq
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Militants piled more pressure on Washington&#39;s military allies in Iraq on Thursday, seizing a Polish woman and holding a Japanese man under threat of death.
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Insurgents in Iraq have kidnapped more than 150 foreigners in their campaign to drive out coalition forces and hamper reconstruction:
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Iraqi-British hostage Margaret Hassan  again urged Britain to withdraw its troops from Iraq and also  to free Iraqi women prisoners, Al Jazeera television reported  on Wednesday.
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Two foreign gunmen who hijacked a Greek bus with 26 passengers have demanded a $1 million (520,000 pound) ransom and a plane out of the country.
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Militants piled more pressure on the United States&#39; military allies in Iraq on Thursday, seizing a Polish woman and holding a Japanese man under death threat.
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Giuliana Sgrena, an Italian journalist held hostage in Iraq, begged for her life and appealed for foreign troops to quit the country in a tape released by insurgents on Wednesday.
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Militants piled more pressure on  Washington's military allies in Iraq on Thursday, seizing an  Iraqi-Polish woman and holding a Japanese man under threat of  death.
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Two employers of a Turkish truck driver taken hostage in Iraq have agreed to pull out of the country following a threat by his captors to behead him, media sources report.
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Chicago Tribune - Appearing on video haggard and terrified, the kidnapped director of CARE International's Iraq operations made a desperate plea for her life Friday, urging British Prime Minister Tony Blair to withdraw troops from Iraq so she could win freedom from her captors.
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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 threat of death.
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A breakaway Taliban group claiming to hold three UN workers demanded Saturday the hostages&#39; governments pull their troops out of Afghanistan or condemn the &quot;international invasion&quot; of the country, AFP reports.
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An Iraqi insurgent group threatened to kill a German woman and her son unless Germany withdraws its troops from Afghanistan within 10 days, pan-Arab television stations reported on Saturday.Comment
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French government officials called for the release of two journalists kidnapped in Iraq by a group demanding that France rescind a ban on Islamic headscarves in the nation&#39;s schools, Agence
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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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A militant group in Iraq has claimed it is holding a Japanese citizen hostage and gave Tokyo 48 hours to withdraw troops from the country.
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Sobbing and clasping her hands, a kidnapped Italian journalist appeared on a video Wednesday, pleading for her life and calling on U.S.-led troops to pull out of Iraq.
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Baghdad, Nov 03 - The kidnappers of aid worker Margaret Hassan threatened to turn her over to al-Qaida-linked militants notorious for beheading hostages unless Britain agreed within 48 hours to pull its troops from Iraq, Al-Jazeera television reported.