IRAQ Kidnappers Demand Foreign Troops Quit Iraq
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Militants piled more pressure on Washington&#39;s military allies in Iraq on Thursday, seizing a Polish woman and holding a Japanese man under threat of death.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - An Iraqi militant group appealed Sunday to an influential Sunni Muslim organization for an edict on whether the kidnapping of foreigners who work for occupation forces is acceptable under Islam.    The appeal came in a video aired on the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya satellite channel, which showed a masked man reading a statement seeking a "fatwa" from the Association of Muslim Scholars...
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TWO Australians reportedly have been kidnapped in Iraq and threatened with execution within 24 hours unless John Howard withdraws Australian troops from the war-torn country.
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The kidnapped British director of CARE International has made another plea urging Britain to withdraw troops from Iraq. In a video aired on Arab TV, Margaret Hassan asked for the aid organization to close its offices in Iraq.
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PARIS - Islamic militants in Iraq have kidnapped two French journalists and demanded the rescinding of a ban on the Islamic headscarf in French schools, the first time they have demanded a policy change abroad that is not connected to their own country.
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Iraqi-British hostage Margaret Hassan  again urged Britain to withdraw its troops from Iraq and also  to free Iraqi women prisoners, Al Jazeera television reported  on Wednesday.
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DUBAI, SEPTEMBER 6: An Iraqi group purportedly holding two French journalists hostage demanded a $5 million ransom on Monday and set a 48-hour deadline for their demands to be met.
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Militants piled more pressure on  Washington's military allies in Iraq on Thursday, seizing a  Polish woman and holding a Japanese man under threat of death.
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French government officials called for the release of two journalists kidnapped in Iraq by a group demanding that France rescind a ban on Islamic headscarves in the nation&#39;s schools, Agence
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Insurgents in Iraq have kidnapped more than 170 foreigners:
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Care International have made a televised plea to the kidnappers of Margaret Hassan, their director in Iraq, after a new videotape showed her begging Tony Blair not to send troops to Baghdad.
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An Iraqi militant group has kidnapped two  French citizens and is demanding the French government end a  ban on Muslim headscarves to free them, Arabic television  station Al Jazeera said Saturday.
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US forces continued to battle Iraqis in the insurgent bastion of Falluja on Wednesday as the kidnapping of two Italian aid workers in central Baghdad prompted workers for foreign charities workers to consider leaving Iraq.
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Britain is urging the United States to announce a possible timetable for the withdrawal of the countries' troops from Iraq.
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Iraqi-British national Margaret Hassan  who is held hostage in Iraq urged Britain to pull out troops  and release Iraqi women prisoners, Al Jazeera television said  Wednesday.
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Iraqi-British hostage Margaret Hassan has urged Britain to withdraw its troops from Iraq and free Iraqi women prisoners, Al Jazeera reported Wednesday.
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Australians are calling for a withdrawal of troops from Iraq, less than a week before a general election.