British hostage in Iraq appears in video, hopes rise for French ...
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BAGHDAD : Kidnapped British engineer Kenneth Bigley begged London to meet his captors&#39; demands and free Iraqi prisoners, in a new video broadcast on Arab television, amid a flurry of hostage releases.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A weeping British hostage was shown pleading for help between the bars of a makeshift cage in a video that surfaced Wednesday, a sobering reminder of the grim reality for at least 18 foreign captives still held by Iraqi militants.    There is wide speculation that ransoms were paid for the freedom of a dozen hostages, including two Italian aid workers...
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Here is the full text of hostage Kenneth Bigley's video statement, posted on the Internet late Wednesday and appealing to Prime Minister Tony Blair to deal with his captors in Iraq:
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The French government remains hopeful about the fate of two its nationals held hostage in Iraq but does not want to jeopardise their release by talking about it too much, an official said today.
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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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Signs suggest hope for a possible release of the two French journalists held hostage in Iraq, Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin said Saturday.
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DUBAI/LONDON, SEPTEMBER 29: A British hostage in Iraq made an impassioned plea to PM Tony Blair to help free him in a videotape aired on Wednesday that left relatives relieved to see him alive but appalled at his caged conditions.
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BAGHDAD, OCTOBER 8: Militants in Iraq beheaded British hostage Kenneth Bigley, three weeks after kidnapping him to press a demand for the release of women held by US-led forces, a video seen by Reuters showed on Friday.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A British hostage appeared on a video posted on an Islamic Web site Wednesday weeping and pleading for his life as Iraq's leader and U.S. officials crushed reports that a high-profile female Iraqi weapons scientist could be released from jail soon - as demanded by the kidnappers...
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A video posted on an Islamist website purportedly shows a British hostage in Iraq pleading for his life.
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Islamic militants released a brief tape showing two French journalists kidnapped recently in Iraq, saying they were holding the men to protest a French law banning headscarves in schools, according to footage aired Saturday by Al-Jazeera TV station.
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The French government and Muslim community in France requested the release of two French journalists being held hostage in Iraq. Al-Jazeera TV broadcast video of the hostages and disclosed the names of the
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DUBAI, Sept 28  - A purported French envoy seeking the release of two French journalists held hostage in Iraq told Al-Arabiya television Tuesday he had seen the pair and a deal had been reached for their release.
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Two French journalists who have been held hostage in Iraq since August say they are &quot;in good health&quot; in a video that has been given to their families, the brother of one of the journalists says.
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BRITAIN was bracing itself for another hostage outrage in Iraq yesterday as a harrowing new video of the Care International aid worker Margaret Hassan was released by her captors.
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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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DUBAI/LONDON  - A British hostage in Iraq appealed  to Tony Blair to help free him in a new videotape aired on  Wednesday that left his family relieved Kenneth Bigley was  alive but appalled to see him caged and in distress.