British SAS team could free Ethiopia tourists
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DESERT REGION: General view of Hamedilla, a salt market town from where tourists were taken in the middle of the night as they slept in Afar depression, 120 meters below sea level, an arid region near the ...Comment
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Fifteen foreigners, including 11 French nationals, a Briton and an Italian, are believed to have been kidnapped in a remote and inhospitable area of Ethiopia where separatist rebels operate.
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Britain voiced alarm Monday over the fate of kidnapped embassy staffers in Ethiopia and vowed to do everything to secure their release, amid reports that special forces were on standby.
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Ethiopian police said on Saturday that they have identified the kidnappers of the British embassy tour group abducted in the remote Ethiopian desert on March 1.
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Eritrea dismissed as "baseless  fabrication" accusations by an Ethiopian official that Eritrean  forces had kidnapped a group of British tourists in a remote  area of Ethiopia.
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Four Britons who were captured by Ethiopian forces on the Somali-Kenyan border have returned to Britain and were immediately held under anti-terrorism laws, the police said.
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The five British embassy hostages who were freed after being held in Ethiopia said Wednesday they were treated well by their kidnappers but voiced concern for Ethiopians who are still missing.
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MEKELE, Ethiopia  - Ethiopian security forces scoured a remote northeastern region on Monday in search of a group of kidnapped Europeans, all linked to the British embassy in Addis Ababa.
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Ethiopia's prime minister said Monday that officials have a good idea of the whereabouts of five Europeans kidnapped in one of the country's most remote, inhospitable regions.
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Tony Blair, the British prime minister, is in Ethiopia to chair a summit he hopes will turn Africa&#39;s problems into a global priority.
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Five European tourists who went missing last week in northeastern Ethiopia are being held by kidnappers in a remote tribal region, Ethiopia's foreign minister said
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Britain has assembled a 60-member team of special military forces to rescue five Britons kidnapped in Ethiopia last week, the Daily Mirror reported Monday.Comment
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Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett voiced hope Thursday that those holding five British embassy staff in Ethiopia would release them safely and rapidly.
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MEKELE, Ethiopia -- A European tour group that disappeared last week near the disputed border of Ethiopia and Eritrea appeared to be "safe and secure" but was in the hands of unknown kidnappers, Ethiopia's foreign minister said yesterday.
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Ethiopian police said on Saturday they had identified the kidnappers of the British embassy tour group abducted in the remote Ethiopian desert on March 1.
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Reports that Britons kidnapped in  Ethiopia have been found are investigated by the Foreign Office.
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Britain has prepared a crack Special Air Service team to rescue five Britons feared kidnapped in Ethiopia, if diplomatic efforts to release them fail, press reports said on Monday.Comment