Hostage Deadline Looms; Iraq Clerics Slain
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Relatives pleaded Monday for the release of two Americans and a Briton held hostage as a deadline loomed for their beheading. In Baghdad, gunmen assassinated two clerics from a powerful Sunni Muslim group opposed to the U.S...
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Their abductors also extended the deadline on their demand for the United Nations to withdraw from the country until Friday. They had earlier suggested that they might start killing the hostages on Wednesday.
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_ Militants threatened to decapitate two Americans and a Briton being held hostage unless their demands were met within 48 hours, and in northern Iraq a car bomb killed at least 21 people and wounded 67 on Saturday.
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A deadline set by militants who have  threatened to behead two Americans and a Briton seized in Iraq  was due to expire Monday, and more than two dozen other  hostages were also facing death unless rebel demands were met.
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Terrorism News, PESHAWAR - A deadline passed yesterday for a threat by an Al Qaeda-linked tribal leader to execute one of two Chinese hostages unless the captors were allowed to flee their besieged base near the Afghan border.
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An Iraqi militant group has threatened to  behead a Turkish hostage within three days unless the United  States releases all Iraqi prisoners and Turkish nationals leave  Iraq, Al Arabiya television said on Monday.
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The group of Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, which has claimed the gruesome killing of foreign hostages in Iraq, threatened to execute two Americans and a Briton it is holding unless Iraqi women prisoners are freed within 48 hours.
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Baghdad - A chilling ultimatum to kill two American hostages and a Briton ticked down on Sunday, as Britain and Iraq said they were working closely on efforts to secure their release from al-Qaeda-linked militants.
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BAGHDAD, 19 September 2004 - Kidnappers of two Americans and a Briton yesterday threatened to behead them unless Iraqi women held at two American-controlled detention facilities were freed within 48 hours.
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Ayad Allawi&#39;s ultimatum yesterday to the rebel Shia cleric Moqtada al Sadr - who is holed up with his fighters in the holy city of Najaf - was notable for one thing: the lack of a deadline.
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Relatives pleaded on Monday for the release of two Americans and a Briton as a deadline loomed for their beheading. In Baghdad, two
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The family of a Briton held hostage in Iraq are waiting for news after a deadline set by his captors passed. On Saturday, the kidnappers said they would kill Ken Bigley, from Liverpool, and two Americans unless
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Militants killed a second American  captive in Iraq after a 24-hour deadline passed on Tuesday, a  Web site statement and Arab television said.
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World News, BAGHDAD, IRAQ - Militants who beheaded an American hostage in Iraq threatened to kill another US captive and a Briton on Tuesday, as relatives and diplomats pleaded for their release.
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Clerics differ on who was responsible for the kidnapping in Baghdad.
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A militant group headed by al Qaeda ally  Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has killed an American captive in Iraq  after the lapse of a 24-hour deadline on Tuesday, Arabic  channel Al Jazeera said.
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The kidnappers of an American-French journalist in Iraq have threatened to execute him within 48 hours unless US forces withdraw from the holy city of Najaf.