Italian Women Said Dead in Iraq, UK Hostage Pleads
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Two Italian women aid workers were  reported killed in Iraq and a British hostage pleaded for his  life after the killing of two Americans, as the latest hostage  crisis put pressure on governments with troops in Iraq.
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ROME, Sept 23  - Italy sought on Thursday to play down the credibility of two claims about the murder of two Italian aid workers, both young women, taken hostage in Iraq but failed to ease gnawing anguish over their fate.
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Two Italian women aid workers were freed in Baghdad today three weeks after being taken hostage. But there was still no word of the fate of Briton Ken Bigley, threatened with beheading by his captors who have remained silent for almost a week.
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Rome - Italy sought on Thursday to play down the credibility of two claims for the murder of two Italian aid workers, both young women, taken hostage in Iraq, but failed to ease gnawing anguish over their fate.
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An Italian journalist taken hostage in  Baghdad this month made an emotional appeal for her life and  called on foreign forces to withdraw from the country in a tape  released by insurgents on Wednesday.
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A group calling itself the Jihad Organization says it has executed two Italian female hostages in Iraq. The organisation has reportedly issued a statement on an Islamist website, but the authenticity of the claim can not be confirmed.
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A British aid worker kidnapped in Iraq has probably been killed, her family and officials said, in what would be the first known female
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The Italian government has urged caution on reports that two Italian women being held captive in Iraq have been killed, saying the claims are unreliable and part of a terrorism campaign being carried out ...
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An Islamist group in Iraq said it had killed two female Italian hostages in a statement posted on an Internet site, but the women&#39;s employers in Italy said on Thursday they had not given up hope.
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Italy&#39;s government doubts the reliability of a statement by an Iraqi group that said it killed two female Italian hostages, according to the humanitarian organization that employs the women.
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CAIRO, Egypt An Internet statement -- purportedly from a group that claimed to have kidnapped two Italian aid workers in Iraq -- says those women have been killed.
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These file photos releas ed on Sept. 7 show two Italian women Simona Pari and Simona Torretta (R) taken hostage in Iraq. An Iraqi militant group known as Jihad Organization claims to have killed two Italian
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A militant group claimed in a Web posting Thursday that two Italian women taken hostage in Iraq had been killed, a day after another group made a similar statement.
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A website, which this week published a second unsubstantiated claim that two Italian aid workers held hostage in Iraq had been executed, reported that British captive Kenneth Bigley had been killed.
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An Internet statement purportedly by a group which claimed to have kidnapped two Italian aid workers in Iraq said Wednesday it had killed the women.
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Description: An Islamist Internet site says a radical group has killed two female Italian aid workers kidnapped in Baghdad. The women&#39;s employer says it has doubts about the claim.
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BAGHDAD  - British officials said they believed Margaret Hassan, a British-Irish aid worker kidnapped in Iraq last month, had been killed by her captors after a video was issued apparently showing her murder.