3 foreigners kidnapped in Afghanistan
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KABUL: Three foreign election workers were kidnapped by armed men in Kabul on Thursday, government officials said. The workers were from Britain, the Philippines and Kosovo, the sources said, and two of the victims were women.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - An American and three other foreigners were kidnapped Monday from their office in western Baghdad &quot;in an exchange of fire,&quot; the Interior Ministry spokesman said.
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Afghan forces backed by foreign peacekeepers fanned through a valley west of Kabul in a massive manhunt for three UN election workers kidnapped by gunmen from outside their office in the Afghan capital.
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Militants kidnapped a Turkish engineer in eastern Afghanistan, a government official said.
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Three foreign election workers are kidnapped at gunpoint in the Afghan capital, Kabul, officials say.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Gunmen wearing military uniforms kidnapped three foreign UN election workers here in a daylight attack yesterday in one of the most affluent and heavily guarded areas of the city. The kidnappings, coming five days after a suicide bomber killed two people, including an American woman, on a busy shopping street, raised fears that the Afghan capital could ...
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The Taleban say they have kidnapped an Italian journalist and two Afghan nationals in south Afghanistan.
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US and Afghan soldiers have raided houses in downtown Kabul early Monday in an operation aimed at releasing three foreign UN hostages, who were abducted last month.
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Nato troops are hunting for three UN workers, one of them British-Irish, kidnapped in Afghanistan&#39;s first Iraqi-style abduction yesterday.
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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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The woman and her Afghan driver were kidnapped by gunmen in Kandahar on her way to work, the provincial governor said.
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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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Afghan authorities arrest three people after an attempt to shoot down President Karzai's helicopter on Thursday.
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Two foreigners from the Red Cross who helped free a group of South Korean captives last month have been kidnapped in Afghanistan after talking with militants about the release of a German hostage, officials said Thursday.
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Unknown gunmen abducted two international and two Afghan employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross near Kabul, Afghan officials said Thursday.
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American and Afghan forces searching for three kidnapped UN workers smashed their way into a number of Kabul houses today. About 10 people were detained in the pre-dawn operation, but there was no indication the three foreigners had been found.
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Armed men wearing military-style jackets abducted three foreign United Nations election workers in broad daylight in Kabul as vote-counting ended in Afghanistan's landmark election.