More people taken hostage in Iraq
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An American, along with two Arab nationals and an Asian, were taken hostage on Monday by gunmen in Baghdad, as violence continued in Iraq.
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Gunmen in camouflage uniforms kidnapped about 30 Iraqis from an industrial area in central Baghdad on Thursday, police sources said.
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An American, along with two Arab nationals and an Asian, were taken hostage on Monday by gunmen in Baghdad, an Iraqi Interior Ministry spokesman said.
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A Briton and two Americans became the latest foreigners to be kidnapped in Iraq yesterday when gunmen burst into their house in central Baghdad and dragged them off into a van.
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Militants piled more pressure on  Washington's military allies in Iraq on Thursday, seizing a  Polish woman and holding a Japanese man under threat of death.
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Gunmen in military uniforms kidnapped dozens of people Thursday from a commercial area in central Baghdad, police said.
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Gunmen have kidnapped a Briton and two Americans from a house in an affluent central Baghdad neighbourhood, the latest in a nearly six-month campaign of abductions of foreigners in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Kidnappers seized six Egyptians and four Iraqis working for the country's mobile phone company, authorities said Friday, and Muslim leaders in Britain announced plans to send negotiators to Baghdad in hopes of winning the release of hostage Kenneth Bigley.    Gunmen abducted two of the Egyptians on Thursday in a bold raid on the firm's Baghdad office - the latest in a string of kidnappings targeting engineers working on Iraq's infrastructure, in a bid to undermine the U.S.-allied interim government...
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Insurgents in Iraq have kidnapped more than 180 foreigners:
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A Polish woman was taken hostage by an Iraqi armed group, the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera TV channel reported on Thursday. The group, calling itself Abu Bakr Siddiq Al-Salafiya, called
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"We are urgently looking into reports that a group of Westerners has been kidnapped."  SEVERAL Britons were feared kidnapped in Baghdad today on another bloody day for Iraq. via Edinburgh News
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An Iraqi militant group says it has seized 10 hostages all of whom work for an electronics firm, reports say. Briton Kenneth Bigley, 62, is still being held in Iraq, as are two French journalists.
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The Arab news network Al-Jazeera showed video Thursday of 10 new hostages seized in Iraq by militants. Al-Jazeera said the 10 -- six Iraqis, two Lebanese and two Indonesian
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Militants threatened to decapitate two Americans and a Briton being held hostage unless their demands were met within 48 hours. In northern Iraq a car bomb killed at least 21 people and wounded 67 yesterday.
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Insurgents in Iraq have kidnapped more than 150 foreigners. Those reported held are:
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[World News]: Kathmandu, Nov 3 : One more Nepalese has been taken hostage in Iraq along with five others, barely two months after an Islamist groups abducted and killed 12 Nepalese there.
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Arabic TV station al-Jazeera shows footage of militants claiming to have taken 10 new hostages in Iraq.