UK Probing Reports of Kidnapping in Iraq
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The government said Monday it was investigating reports that members of a London-based radical Islamic group have been in contact with militants holding a British hostage in Iraq to urge his release.
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British troops may face new charges in Iraq as investigators explore fresh allegations of civilian deaths, a newspaper reported.
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The British government said Monday that it was very closely monitoring the situation of a British engineer kidnapped in Iraq, as a deadline passed.
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BAGHDAD, 24 September 2004 - The British government yesterday ruled out negotiations with the kidnappers of Kenneth Bigley in Iraq despite a personal appeal from the captive to Prime Minister Tony Blair to help save his life.
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Gunmen in police uniforms and driving vehicles used by security forces kidnapped five Britons from an Iraqi Finance Ministry office Tuesday, and a senior Iraqi official said the radical Shiite Mahdi Army militia was suspected.
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British police are questioning nine men of mostly Pakistani origin arrested in connection with an alleged plot to stage an &quot;Iraq-style&quot; kidnapping and videotaped beheading of a British Muslim soldier.
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Two MPs have demanded an inquiry into claims that a British-based security firm operating in Iraq withheld intelligence from British troops, The Guardian newspaper reported Monday.
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Britain has told a United Nations human rights panel that nine cases of alleged torture or mistreatment involving British soldiers in Iraq are under investigation or ready to be brought to trial, a source close to the UN panel said.
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The Foreign Office is checking claims about a video which apparently shows UK hostage Kenneth Bigley being killed.
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Four Britons were among a group of foreign oil workers reported kidnapped in southern Nigeria, a spokesman for the Foreign Office in London said Friday.
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Shia militia group the Mehdi Army could be behind the kidnapping of five Britons in Iraq, its foreign minister says.
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Britain's military is investigating allegations that 22 detainees died in its custody and nine others were tortured after a battle in Iraq, officials said Thursday.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Kidnappers seized six Egyptians and four Iraqis working for the country's mobile phone company, authorities said Friday, and Muslim leaders in Britain announced plans to send negotiators to Baghdad in hopes of winning the release of hostage Kenneth Bigley.    Gunmen abducted two of the Egyptians on Thursday in a bold raid on the firm's Baghdad office - the latest in a string of kidnappings targeting engineers working on Iraq's infrastructure, in a bid to undermine the U.S.-allied interim government...
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Reports of &quot;an incident&quot; involving soldiers from the Black Watch in Iraq are being investigated, the Ministry of Defence has said.
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Britain was urgently investigating unconfirmed reports that Kenneth Bigley, a British hostage kidnapped in Baghdad in mid-September, has been killed by his captors.
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A parliamentary committee is holding a wide-ranging secret inquiry into the capture of 15 British troops by Iran earlier this year, The Independent reported Monday.
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Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has personally contacted the family of a Briton kidnapped in Iraq to reassure them as they anxiously await news, the Foreign Office announced today.