Britain Hopes and Prays for Hostage in Iraq
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Anxious Britons awaited news on Wednesday of hostage Kenneth Bigley after his captors in Iraq said they beheaded the second of two Americans being held with him.
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Britain has takem its pleas for the life of hostage Kenneth Bigley to the streets of Baghdad, distributing leaflets in the hope of persuading his captors to show mercy.
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A British Muslim delegation has landed in Iraq tonight with a plea for mercy from the ruthless Islamic militants holding Kenneth Bigley hostage.
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The brother of Ken Bigley, the British hostage held in Iraq, said on Monday he was increasingly hopeful the engineer would be released soon and that he was ready to travel to the Middle East at a moment&#39;s notice.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair tonight vowed the Government would do all it could to help free an aid chief kidnapped in Baghdad. Margaret Hassan, who heads Care Internationalâs operation
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The brother of a British engineer held hostage in Iraq said he was encouraged about a possible release after two Italian aid workers were freed after three weeks, while Prime Minister Tony Blair said the British government was trying to contact the man's abductors.
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A two-man delegation from Britain's  biggest Muslim group arrived in Iraq on Saturday on a quest to  free British hostage Kenneth Bigley, seized by Islamic  militants nine days ago and threatened with death.
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Liverpool - The family of a British engineer anxiously awaited news on Friday of his fate at the hands of Islamic extremists in Iraq who abducted him eight days ago along with two Americans who have since been executed.
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A two-man delegation from Britain&#39;s biggest Muslim group has arrived in Iraq on a quest to free British hostage Kenneth Bigley, seized by Islamic militants nine days ago and threatened with death.
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BRITAIN was doing everything it could to try to secure the release of a British engineer held hostage in Iraq and threatened with execution, Prime Minister Tony Blair said today.
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Britain is ready to listen to kidnappers holding a British hostage in Iraq but is not prepared to negotiate with them or pay them a ransom, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said on Thursday.
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Britain's Foreign Office launched a televised appeal on an Arab satellite channel for Iraqis to help rescue British hostage Kenneth Bigley who faces a death threat along with two US kidnap victims.
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LONDON, Sept 30  - Hopes remained alive Thursday for the life of Briton Ken Bigley as Prime Minister Tony Blair vowed to respond &quot;immediately&quot; if his hostage takers in Iraq contacted the British government.
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The Foreign Office has appealed on Al Arabiya television for any information from Iraqis on Kenneth Bigley, a British engineer taken hostage with two Americans last week.
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Hopes for the kidnapped British aid worker Margaret Hassan rose yesterday after al-Qaeda terrorists in Iraq called for her release.
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Prominent British Muslims arrived in  Kuwait on Saturday en route to Baghdad to plead for the release  of hostage Kenneth Bigley, nine days after the 62-year-old  engineer was kidnapped.
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LIVERPOOL, England  - Prayers were being offered  for British engineer Kenneth Bigley as news on Wednesday of a  possible breakthrough raised hopes he might escape the gruesome  fate of his fellow hostages in Iraq.