Clever hostage negotiated with captor
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A day after a Chicago-based Army National Guard unit plucked a kidnapped Canadian woman out of the Iraqi desert, her father recounted the harrowing ordeal she survived -- and the deal she cut to win her freedom.
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THE brother of Ken Bigley, the British engineer being held hostage in Iraq, said yesterday he had received an offer of help from the family of Libyan leader Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi.
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HOPES for Ken Bigley&#39;s freedom rose yesterday after it was claimed he had been &#39;sold&#39; to a less brutal gang of kidnappers.
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British hostage Kenneth Bigley appeared in a video tape aired on Wednesday, pleading with Prime Minister Tony Blair to meet the demands of his captors in Iraq to release Iraqi women prisoners.
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The captives included members of the U.S. Office of Strategic Services and Associated Press correspondent Joseph Morton.
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A negotiator trying to secure the release of the two French journalists being held hostage in Iraq has said he is with them and they could be free &quot;within hours&quot;.
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Hopes for the release of Kenneth Bigley, the British hostage, rose yesterday after Dublin responded to requests from his kidnappers for proof of his Irish ancestry by issuing a passport in his name.
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A French negotiator said on Tuesday he met two French journalists being held hostage in Iraq and that an agreement had been reached to free them soon.
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A man Al Arabiya television said was negotiating the release of two French journalists held hostage in Iraq said on Tuesday he met the two Frenchmen and that an agreement had been reached to free them soon.
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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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British hostage Ken Bigley escaped briefly from his captors shortly before they beheaded him in Iraq, insurgent sources said Saturday.
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The terrorists holding Ken Bigley hostage in Iraq could be prepared to barter their captive for a ransom, it emerged last night. The Islamic militant leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has decided that Mr Bigley
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An unidentified Australian journalist was held hostage in Iraq for 24 hours at the weekend before being released unharmed, Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said today.
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A friend of the man who held a girl captive for more than eight years in an underground cell said Wednesday he met her at the kidnapper's home last month, where she was introduced as an acquaintance.
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Inmates helped rescue a guard taken hostage by four other inmates at a regional Virginia jail Saturday, ending a four-hour standoff, officials said...
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A man Al Arabiya television said was  negotiating the release of two French journalists held hostage  in Iraq said on Tuesday he met the two Frenchmen and that an  agreement had been reached to free them soon.
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British hostage Kenneth Bigley escaped  briefly from his captors shortly before they beheaded him in  Iraq, insurgent sources said Saturday.