Afghan UN Kidnappers Await Release of 26 Taliban
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Kidnappers of three U.N. workers in  Afghanistan said on Thursday they expect the government to  release 26 Taliban prisoners in exchange for their hostages  before the Muslim Eid festival this weekend.
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Afghan militants who have threatened to  kill three kidnapped U.N. workers have agreed to give the  government until Tuesday to find and release 26 Taliban  prisoners, a spokesman for the militants said on Sunday.
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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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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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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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Kidnappers of three U.N. workers in  Afghanistan said on Wednesday the government had agreed to  terms for their release, despite indications from Afghan and  U.S. officials that meeting the militants' demands was  impossible.
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Three UN workers remained hostages of a Taliban faction despite hopes they would be freed by the Muslim festival of Eid which began on Saturday, the third anniversary of the Taliban&#39;s flight from the Afghan capital.
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A Taliban splinter group claiming to be holding three foreign UN workers hostage has said it has extended the deadline for their threatened execution at the request of the Afghan government.
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Three U.N. workers remained hostages of a Taliban faction despite hopes they would be freed by the Muslim festival of Eid which began on Saturday, the third anniversary of the Taliban's flight from the Afghan capital.
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A militant Afghan group holding three foreign UN workers has given negotiators a list of Taliban prisoners and said it will kill the hostages unless they -- and all Afghans jailed in Guantanamo Bay -- are freed.
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Militants holding three U.N. workers  hostage in Afghanistan said they expected to hold talks via  intermediaries with U.N. and government negotiators on Sunday  while the U.N. repeated a call for their immediate release.
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Militants in Afghanistan holding three UN workers hostage said on Saturday they were hopeful their demands would be met in negotiations but there were conflicting reports on whether the talks had started.
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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.
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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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Militants threatening to kill three UN hostages said talks were to begin with Afghan and UN officials today, ten days after the victims were abducted at gunpoint on a street in the capital.
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KABUL - The militant group holding three foreign UN workers captive in Afghanistan extended an ultimatum for their threatened execution on Wednesday but gave conflicting versions of a new deadline.
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Afghan militants have hinted they might release a Filipino hostage, one of three UN workers kidnapped last week, as his country has no troops in Afghanistan.