Kidnapped reporters: the "curse" of Baghdad's Dulaimi hotel
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Two French reporters feared to have been taken hostage two days ago, as well as a US newsman and a British freelance who suffered the same fate last week, all stayed in the same eerie Baghdad hotel.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq Sept. 16, 2004 - Gunmen kidnapped two Americans and a Briton from a house in the heart of the Iraqi capital Thursday, the Interior Ministry and witnesses said.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen abducted two Americans and a Briton in a brazen attack Thursday on a house in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood where many embassies and foreign companies are based, the Interior Ministry and witnesses said. It was the latest in a wave of kidnappings of foreigners in Iraq...
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen abducted six Egyptians and four Iraqis working for Iraq's mobile phone company, seizing two in a bold raid on the firm's Baghdad office and the others outside the capital, officials said Friday, the latest in a string of kidnappings that have underscored the country's fragile security.    Also Friday, mortars exploded near the Italian Embassy in Baghdad, slightly wounding three Iraqis, the Foreign Ministry in Rome said...
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If you even cursorily read the reports released this week about the depredations at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, you might title them, &quot;On the Other Hand ...&quot;. One part
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Google Saves Kidnapped Journalist in Iraq  Google can claim another life saved after a kidnapped Australian journalist was freed by his captors in Iraq earlier today. Freelance journalist John Martinkus was abducted by gunmen on Saturday outside a hotel near the Australian embassy. Apparently Martinkus was able to convince his captors ...
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Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK The widely publicized experience of a Wall Street Journal reporter in Baghdad, whose private correspondance to family and friends ripping conditions in Iraq found its way online and into print in October, shows that journalists must guard their e-mail comments, industry leaders say.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen abducted six Egyptians and four Iraqis working for Iraq's mobile phone company, seizing two in a bold raid on the firm's Baghdad office and the others outside the capital, officials said Friday, the latest in a string of kidnappings that have underscored the country's fragile security.    Also Friday, a rocket hit the busy Baghdad thoroughfare Palestine Street...
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The fate of two abducted French journalists in Iraq is the main focus of Tuesday's press. German papers look ahead gloomily to today's three-way summit meeting in Russia, while a Russian paper finds a novel way to claim Olympic victory.
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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 ...
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Seven Westerners are reportedly kidnapped from a finance ministry building in central Baghdad.
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Shortly after the U.S. Embassy in Tehran was seized on Nov. 4, 1979, several of the 52 American hostages were herded into a room festooned with skeletons, witches, ghosts and goblins. An Iranian, mystified by the images of death and evil, demanded an explanation. Joseph Hall, a military attache, described Halloween traditions and the embassy party that had taken place a few days earlier.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen kidnapped two Americans and a Briton from a house in the heart of the Iraqi capital Thursday, the Interior Ministry and witnesses said.    The three were seized from a two-story house surrounded by a wall in Baghdad's al-Mansour neighborhood at dawn, said Col...
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The purported execution of the two women, both aid workers abducted more than two weeks ago in Baghdad along with two Iraqi colleagues, caused consternation in Italy, with Italian TV and radio running special bulletins through the night.
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The Iraqi kidnapping business continued unabated today with the abduction of two Egyptians in Baghdad. There was still no word of the fate of Briton Ken Bigley - or two Italian women whom websites claim have been beheaded.
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The kidnapping of two French journalists in Iraq and the summer Athens Olympics are commented on, and some papers look at the results of the Chechen election.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq  The Canal Hotel sits eerily alone, surrounded by sandy hills and a filthy creek. Its blue and white arches still hang over a gaping black hole that spans three floors, where a year ago ...