Afghan Clerics Call for Release of 3 UN Workers Held Hostage
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Afghanistan&#39;s Ulema council, an association of clerics, called for the release of three United Nations workers held hostage since Oct. 28, saying the abduction ``can only defame Islam,&#39;&#39; according to an e-mailed statement.
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A Taliban splinter group holding three U.N. workers hostage demanded a response to its demands from the government and United Nations by Tuesday afternoon and said it would kill one of the captives if they were not met.
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Some of the 26 Taliban members Afghan militants have demanded freed as part of a deal to release three kidnapped UN workers could be in the US military jail
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Two of three UN workers kidnapped in Afghanistan called home to reassure relatives they are all right, as negotiators tried Tuesday to secure their release after 12 days in the hands of Taliban-linked militants.
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PESHAWAR: The Jaishul Muslimeen has demanded the release of 25 prisoners being held in Afghanistan and at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay before it could consider freeing the three UN election workers kidnapped from Kabul last week.
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Militants holding three foreign UN staff members in Afghanistan released a videotape Sunday showing their hostages, and they said the three would be killed if demands
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The Afghan government is considering  offering a ransom to free three U.N. hostages, an official said  on Monday, as the kidnappers repeated a threat to kill the  foreigners unless Taliban prisoners were released.
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A Taliban splinter group holding three  U.N. workers hostage demanded a response from the Afghan  government and United Nations to its conditions on Tuesday,  saying it would kill them if they were not met.
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Afghan militants holding three foreigners hostage have said they will kill them unless Taleban and al-Qaeda prisoners are released by Wednesday.
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The United Nations again appealed for the  safe return of three of its workers held hostage in Afghanistan  on Thursday, three weeks after they were snatched from their  car on a busy street in central Kabul.
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Three UN workers, including a Briton, remain hostages of a Taliban faction despite hopes they would be freed by the Muslim festival of Eid, the third anniversary of the Taliban&#39;s ousting from the Afghan capital.
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The United Nations again appealed for the safe return of three of its workers held hostage in Afghanistan on Thursday, three weeks after they were snatched from their car on a busy street in central Kabul.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban-linked militants holding three kidnapped UN workers demanded yesterday the release of 26 prisoners, some possibly in US custody at Guantanamo Bay, in return for sparing the hostages' lives.
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KABUL, Afghanistan  - Some of the 26 Taliban  members Afghan militants have demanded freed as part of a deal  to release three kidnapped U.N. workers could be in the U.S.  military jail at Guantanamo Bay, a militant spokesman said on  Monday.
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Militants holding a Briton and two other foreign UN workers in Afghanistan have threatened to kill them unless all Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners are released from US
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Three international workers held hostage in Afghanistan&#39;s capital, Kabul, for almost a month were freed today, the United Nations said.
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Afghan kidnappers holding three foreign United Nations workers hostage say they are now considering whether to kill, hold or release their captives.