Echoes of Iraq: 3 kidnapped in Kabul
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Kabul, Afghanistan -- The kidnapping of three foreign election workers has raised fears that an Iraq-style hostage crisis may be about to engulf the country.
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A UN election worker with dual British and Irish nationality was among three foreigners kidnapped in Afghanistan today. The three were seized at gunpoint in the capital Kabul this morning sparking fears of Iraq-style atrocities.
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A video apparently showing three foreign election workers kidnapped in Afghanistan was shown Sunday on Arab television. The video was the firmest evidence yet that the three are in the hands of a Taliban splinter
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KABUL, Afghanistan The United Nations says it&#39;s more and more worried about the well-being of three of its workers kidnapped in Afghanistan.
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KABUL, Sept. 16 -- A Bangladeshi aid worker who was helping administer programs to alleviate rural poverty in Afghanistan was kidnapped on Saturday, his employer said Sunday, becoming the latest in a recent string of high-profile abductions of international workers here.
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A Kosovar and a Filipino kidnapped in Afghanistan have called home to say they are OK. The two were among three UN workers kidnapped 12 days ago when armed men halted their vehicle in downtown Kabul.
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Three foreigners helping to organize  Afghanistan's first presidential election were kidnapped by  armed men in Kabul on Thursday, triggering fears that militants  were copying tactics used by insurgents in Iraq.
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KABUL, Sept. 16 -- A Bangladeshi aid worker helping to administer anti-poverty programs in rural Afghanistan has been kidnapped, his employer said Sunday. It was the latest in a string of abductions of international workers here.
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Three British nationals, believed to be civilians, were snatched by gunmen from a house in central Baghdad early on Thursday, Iraq's Interior Ministry said.
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US and Afghan forces raid houses in Kabul as part of a hunt for three UN workers kidnapped last month.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Three UN workers held hostage for nearly a month were preparing to fly home after their release yesterday from an ordeal that suggested Taliban-linked militants are adopting the tactics of Iraqi insurgents.
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The first Westerners were kidnapped in Afghanistan yesterday when three UN election officials were bundled into a car by gunmen who ran their vehicle off the road in the capital Kabul.
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Three UN workers kidnapped in Kabul are probably not being held by Islamic militants, the Afghan authorities say.
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Islamic militants claim they are holding three foreign election workers kidnapped Thursday from a UN vehicle in the Afghan capital of Kabul.
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Three foreign U.N. workers held hostage  in Afghanistan were freed Tuesday, almost four weeks after they  were abducted at gunpoint on the streets of the capital Kabul,  government officials said.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Two Italian military personnel were believed to have been kidnapped in western Afghanistan, and police said yesterday they were searching for the pair and their two Afghan aides.
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Two Australians and two East Asians have been kidnapped in Iraq, said a statement purportedly from the Islamic Secret Army handed out in the Sunni Muslim insurgent bastion of Samarra.