Echoes of Iraq: 3 kidnapped in Kabul
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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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US and Afghan forces raid houses in Kabul as part of a hunt for three UN workers kidnapped last month.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Three UN workers kidnapped in Afghanistan four weeks ago were released unharmed today, a day after a string of raids by US and Afghan security forces.
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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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The UN has issued an appeal for the immediate return of its three staff members, which included a woman from Northern Ireland, kidnapped in Kabul last week.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Two Italian military personnel were believed to have been kidnapped in western Afghanistan, and police said yesterday they were searching for the pair and their two Afghan aides.
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By Declan Walsh in Islamabad and Duncan Campbell and Ewen MacAskill inLondon. Oct 30 (Guardian News Service):NATO troops are hunting for three United Nations workers kidnapped in Afghanistan&#39;s first Iraqi-style abduction on Thursday.
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Three UN workers abducted almost three weeks ago in Afghanistan are probably still being held in the Kabul area and not by a Taliban splinter faction that has threatened to kill them, the Interior Ministry has said.
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KABUL, 16 November 2004 - Afghan captors holding three UN workers hostage in Afghanistan extended a deadline yesterday for their demands to be met, blaming the US for disrupting negotiations aimed at securing the captivesâ release.
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Afghan officials say three United Nations workers kidnapped on Oct. 28th in Kabul were freed late Monday in Kabul. The hostages were released late Monday and are in good condition, three Afghan officials
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(BAGHDAD, Iraq) - Iraqi officials say shots were apparently fired as an American and three other people were kidnapped in Baghdad on Monday.
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The Afghan election commission has confirmed the kidnapping of three foreign election workers in the capital of Kabul, according to CRIENGLISH.
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A Kosovar and a Filipino kidnapped in Afghanistan have called home to say they are OK. The two were among three UN workers kidnapped 12 days ago when armed men halted their vehicle in downtown Kabul.
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Islamic militants claim they are holding three foreign election workers kidnapped Thursday from a UN vehicle in the Afghan capital of Kabul.
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Two Americans and a Briton were kidnapped at gunpoint from their smart Baghdad home, as the two main powers behind last year's controversial invasion became the latest victims in a five-month hostage crisis.
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Three foreign election workers are abducted in the Afghan capital Kabul. A Briton is among them. They are kidnapped near an office of the joint UN-Afghan electoral body set up to oversee the recent presidential election.
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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.