French hostages were held in Latifiyah: former Egyptian captive
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An Egyptian released by kidnappers in Iraq said Saturday he was temporarily held in Latifiyah, south of Baghdad, with two Frenchmen, but did not say if they were two journalists abducted in August and whose ...
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Egypt yesterday freed an Israeli member of the Druze religion convicted of spying, in exchange for Jerusalem&#39;s release of six Egyptian students - a move that
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TWO French journalists returned to a heroâs welcome last night after 124 days in captivity in Iraq and explained how they saved their lives by convincing their kidnappers they were not Americans but French, and friends of Iraq.
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Pleas from across the Arab and Muslim worlds played a key role in turning the minds of Islamic militants who abducted two French journalists in Iraq and freed them this week after a four-month ordeal, analysts ...
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Two French journalists released by militants in Iraq returned to a jubilant France on Wednesday and described a four-month ordeal during which masked gunmen shuttled them among five hideouts and interrogated them at length.
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Egypt said Tuesday that Iraqi kidnappers had freed one Egyptian hostage and were expected to release three others shortly. The holding company that employed the four hostages confirmed that one had been released but said it could not give the status of the others.
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Police detained a French postman behind an Internet operation selling strands of hair and tiny pieces of cloth allegedly taken from the mummy of Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II. If authenticated, Egypt wants the hair back.
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CAIRO, EGYPT - A group calling itself the Islamic Army in Iraq says it has kidnapped two French journalists to protest a new French law that forbids the wear of religious items in schools.
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Egypt set free an Israeli intelligence agent, Azzam Azzam, in exchange for six Egyptian students. One of Azzam&#39;s relatives spoke to Israeli Radio and said that Azzam entered Israel through the Taba control point in the city of Eylat and was looking well.
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The family of a Canadian woman held hostage for 16 days in Iraq is offering new details into her ordeal. Roxanne Yamulky says her sister, Fairuz, was held for ransom before escaping with the help of an Iraqi national.
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Gunmen stormed a mobile phone company office in Baghdad and seized two Egyptian employees, government officials said Friday. The kidnapping happened late Thursday in the upscale Harthiya neighborhood, said Interior Ministry official Col.
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Egypt yesterday released Azzam Azzam, an Israeli arrested and jailed in Egypt eight years ago on charges of espionage. In exchange, Israel freed six Egyptian students who were captured in August this year
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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.    Meanwhile, U.S...
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French-American journalist Micah Garen was released in Nasiriya and was in US hands late Sunday after being kidnapped by insurgents in the southern Iraq city more than a week ago.
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Iraqi kidnappers of two freed French reporters changed the hostages' location five times, hauling them around in a cardboard box stuffed into the back of a car, one of the men said Thursday after their release from the harrowing four-month drama.
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An Egyptian cleric, speaking publicly for the first time, said Thursday that Egyptian officials tortured him in prison after he was kidnapped in Italy &#151; allegedly by CIA agents &#151; and sent here for interrogation.
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A French Muslim delegation in Iraq trying to win the release of two French journalists held hostage by Islamic militants said Thursday they had received proof the men were alive and well. The kidnappers have demanded that Paris rescind a law banning Muslim headscarves.