U.S. woman abducted in Afghanistan. A Taliban snatch?
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Aid worker helped women set up their own businesses in southern city of Kandahar.
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BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan -- A US Air Force officer who went missing for three days says someone stuffed an object in her jeans pocket with a note saying it was a bomb and telling her to go to a site in Bishkek, where kidnappers grabbed her, Kyrgyz authorities said yesterday.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A team of kidnappers grabbed two Americans and a Briton in a dawn raid on their home on a leafy Baghdad street Thursday - a bold abduction that underlines the increasing danger for foreigners in the embattled capital as violence soars ahead of national elections planned for early next year.    West of the capital, U.S...
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The UN has issued an appeal for the immediate return of its three staff members, which included a woman from Northern Ireland, kidnapped in Kabul last week.
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Three American women seen taking photos near a West Bank refugee camp were kidnapped on Tuesday, Palestinian security officials said. There was no claim of responsibility by an armed Palestinian group, but a man calling himself Hadi Saud contacted The Associated Press in Nablus and said he was the kidnapper.
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KABUL - Two of three UN workers kidnapped in Afghanistan telephoned home to say they are OK and one expressed hope she soon would be free, officials and relatives said Tuesday.
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weeks after they were snatched from their car on a busy street in central Kabul. Nayan are with a Taliban splinter faction that has threatened to kill them unless Taliban prisoners are freed.
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17 November 2004 -- Afghanistan&#39;s Interior Ministry says it believes three UN workers abducted nearly three weeks ago in Afghanistan are probably still being held in the area but not by the Taliban splinter group that claims to be seeking negotiations on
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Taliban kidnappers have released a video of a British woman and her two United Nations colleagues they are holding as hostages in a tactic the splinter group has copied from Iraqi terrorists.
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AMERICAN AID WORKER: Gunmen kidnap American aid worker Cyd Mizell and her driver, Abdul Hadi, in a residential neighborhood of Kandahar on Jan. 26, 2008. Mizell, who was wearing the all-encompassing burqa that many Afghan women wear when she was taken, works on aid projects for the Asian Rural Life Development Foundation. No group has yet claimed responsibility.
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An American aid worker was abducted in Afghanistanâs province of Kandahar, the provincial governor said.
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KABUL -- Clutching scarves nervously around their faces, the women whispered details of Taliban atrocities taking place in their native Helmand province: A translator's body found in a sack, carved into pieces. A police officer taken hostage, blinded and garroted with wire. A woman shot and hanged...
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Kabul:Three foreign election workers in Afghanistan have been kidnapped in the capital, Kabul, officials say. The three were taken at gunpoint.
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The woman and her Afghan driver were kidnapped by gunmen in Kandahar on her way to work, the provincial governor said.
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A Colombian female guerrilla wanted in the United States for the kidnapping of three Americans and trafficking cocaine has been captured by the army near Venezuela's border, authorities said on Saturday.
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Taliban militants kidnapped about 20 Arabs and Afghans in western Afghanistan and were holding six captive, while a suicide car bomber detonated his explosives next to a NATO convoy, wounding a soldier, officials said Tuesday.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - Afghan forces searched on Sunday for a U.S. aid worker kidnapped by gunmen from the southern city of Kandahar.