Kidnappers Demand Foreign Troops Quit Iraq
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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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An armed group in Iraq has taken a Japanese traveler hostage and threatened to kill him unless Tokyo withdraws its Self-Defense Forces troops from the country within 48 hours, government officials said in Tokyo on Wednesday.
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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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Japan today refused to withdraw its troops from Iraq despite demands by Iraqi militants who have taken a Japanese civilian hostage and threatened to behead him unless the soldiers left.
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A kidnapped British aid worker made another plea for her life in a video aired Wednesday, urging Britain to withdraw troops from the country as some 800 British soldiers headed north toward Baghdad to bolster U.S. forces.
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Militants have piled more pressure on Washington's military allies in Iraq, seizing an Iraqi-Polish woman and holding a Japanese man under threat of death.
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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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IRISH hostage Margaret Hassan has urged Britain to withdraw its troops from Iraq and free Iraqi women prisoners in a new videotaped plea.
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The French government demanded 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 within 48 hours.
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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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Insurgents in Iraq have kidnapped more than 150 foreigners. Those reported held are:
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Dozens of international aid agencies  considered quitting Iraq Wednesday following the abduction of  two Italian women, and as the U.S. military death toll rose  above 1,000.
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Iraqi-British national Margaret Hassan  who is held hostage in Iraq urged Britain to pull out troops  and release Iraqi women prisoners, Al Jazeera television said  Wednesday.
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The hostage, Guiliana Sgrena, called for foreigners to leave Iraq and emphasized her antiwar reporting.
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Care International have made a televised plea to the kidnappers of Margaret Hassan, their director in Iraq, after a new videotape showed her begging Tony Blair not to send troops to Baghdad.
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An Iraqi militant group has kidnapped two  French citizens and is demanding the French government end a  ban on Muslim headscarves to free them, Arabic television  station Al Jazeera said Saturday.
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Insurgents released a tape on Wednesday  showing an Italian journalist seized in Baghdad earlier this  month pleading for her life and calling on foreign forces to  withdraw.