Britain Rules Out Talks with Iraq Kidnappers
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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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London, Sept. 23 (NNN): Britain has ruled out negotiations with militants holding a British man in Iraq, after the hostage made a video appeal to Prime Minister Tony Blair to help save his life.
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The British and Iraqi governments said  they would not bow to the demands of militants threatening to  kill a British hostage, despite tearful pleas from the captive  and his family.
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Britain said it was not "engaged" with the Taliban, after a report that relations between London and Kabul have soured due to a secret British plan to train former Taliban fighters.
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Video footage of 10 more hostages kidnapped in Iraq was today broadcast on the al-Jazeera television channel as the British government again said it would not negotiate to free Kenneth Bigley.
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Militants beheaded a British hostage  near Baghdad despite secret 11th-hour efforts by London to free  Kenneth Bigley from kidnappers whose video messages had played  on British emotions on the war in Iraq for three weeks.
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BRIGHTON, England  - Britain appealed on Thursday  to kidnappers holding a hostage in Iraq to make contact -- but  still ruled out negotiations or ransom payment.
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With time running out to save a British  hostage in Iraq, U.S. officials said on Wednesday they were not  about to free female Iraqi prisoners as demanded by an al Qaeda  ally whose group has already beheaded two Americans.
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Iraq's National Conference refused today to send a second delegation to negotiate an end to fighting between U.S. troops and loyalists of Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr.
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British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw met Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi Tuesday amid uncertainty over the fate of a British hostage held by gunmen in Iraq.
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Britain on Tuesday defied a Russian  order to close the regional offices of its cultural arm from  New Year's day, but there was no evidence of Russian attempts  to forcibly close British Council centers.
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The deadline set by hostage-takers holding a Briton in Iraq has passed without any further word from them.
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Britain is ready to listen to the Islamic extremists who have been holding Kenneth Bigley hostage in Iraq for two weeks, but not to negotiate with them, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw revealed.
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The government is ready to listen to a message from the kidnappers of Kenneth Bigley but will not enter into negotiations with them, the foreign secretary, Jack Straw, said today.
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Britain said Monday it was not "engaged" with the Taliban, after a report that relations between London and Kabul have soured due to a secret British plan to train former Taliban fighters.
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France is keeping the United States, Britain and the Iraqi interim government at a distance from its efforts to free two French hostages in Iraq to avoid complications with their suspected Muslim extremist ...
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: With time running out to save a British hostage in Iraq, US officials said today they were not about to free female Iraqi prisoners as demanded by an al Qaida ally whose group has already beheaded two Americans.