Muslim envoys head to Baghdad in bid to free hostage
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Two envoys from Britain's leading Muslim organisation headed to Iraq hoping to help secure the release of an engineer taken hostage by Muslim extremists eight days ago.
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Italy's foreign minister  is going to the Middle East to try to secure the release of two Italian women seized in Iraq.
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Kidnappers abducted six Egyptians and four Iraqis working for the country&#39;s mobile-phone company, authorities said yesterday, and Muslim leaders in Britain announced plans to send negotiators to Baghdad in hopes of winning the release of hostage Kenneth
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NAJAF, Iraq  - A delegation of Iraqi political and  religious leaders flew from Baghdad to Najaf on U.S. military  helicopters Tuesday in a bid to end a bloody Shi'ite uprising.
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IRAQ - A group of prominent British Muslims has arrived in Kuwait en route to Baghdad to plead for the release of British hostage Kenneth Bigley.
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A top Italian official leaves for the Middle East to seek the help of Arab countries to secure the release of two female Italian aid workers taken hostage in Iraq.
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London - An Iraqi militant group is expected to negotiate for the release of British hostage Kenneth Bigley, who was seized by Islamic fundamentalists in Baghdad two weeks ago, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported on Saturday.
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FOUR Iraqi religious leaders, including two imams, appealed today for the release of four aid workers - two Italians and two Iraqis - who were taken hostage in Baghdad overnight.
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An Italian envoy has flown to the Middle East to seek help in securing the release of two female aid workers held hostage in Iraq.
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Some 100,000 leaflets from the family of British hostage Ken Bigley were handed out at Sunni mosques across Baghdad, the Muslim day of rest, appealing for his release, the British embassy said.
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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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Iraqi political and religious leaders prepared to go to the holy city of Najaf on Tuesday in a last-ditch bid to persuade a radical Shi'ite cleric to end a rebellion that has killed hundreds and rattled oil markets.
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Two members of a British Muslim group are beginning efforts in Iraq to secure the freedom of Ken Bigley.
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Officials from Western states and Iraq's neighbours are to attend talks in Baghdad on stabilising the country.
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Ambassadors meet in Baghdad to discuss Iraq security situation.
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Pope John Paul, echoing appeals by Muslim  leaders, called Wednesday for the release of two French  journalists held hostage in Iraq as France's foreign minister  pressed on with a Middle East rescue mission.
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Clerics differ on who was responsible for the kidnapping in Baghdad.