Hostage's mother pleads for mercy
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Anguished pleas to save hostage Kenneth Bigley have taken their toll on his family and piled more pressure on Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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Pleading for her life between terrified sobs, kidnapped aid official Margaret Hassan appeared on a videotape Friday urging the British prime minister to abandon Iraq.
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DEAF children helped by kidnapped Margaret Hassan yesterday joined 200 mercy workers at a rally in Baghdad to call for her release.
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The family of Iraq hostage Margaret Hassan faced an anxious wait today after her kidnappers threatened to hand her over to murderous Abu Musab al-Zarqawi if their demands were not met within 48 hours.
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The last time Alla Gadiyeva saw her first-grade son and mother â-t the violent climax today of Russia&#39;s 53-hour hostage saga â - was helping them to escape.
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The wife of the U.S. hostage  threatened with execution in Iraq made another impassioned  appeal on Tuesday for her husband's life and urged his captors  to open up the lines of communication.
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BBC, London, September 19: The wife of an American taken hostage with two others in Baghdad has appealed on television for their release.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A weeping British hostage was shown pleading for help between the bars of a makeshift cage in a video that surfaced Wednesday, a sobering reminder of the grim reality for at least 18 foreign captives still held by Iraqi militants.    There is wide speculation that ransoms were paid for the freedom of a dozen hostages, including two Italian aid workers...
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Hostage Margaret Hassan has made an emotional appeal for UK forces to withdraw from Iraq, in a video shown on al-Jazeera. She was shown pleading: &quot;Please help me, please help me.
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Hours after a kidnapped humanitarian aid worker tearfully pleaded for her life in a video released Friday by her captors, the head of CARE International urged the kidnappers to release Margaret Hassan unharmed.
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THE 86-year-old mother of British hostage Ken Bigley was taken to hospital last night after a radical Islamist website announced that he had been killed by his captors.
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A mother speaks for the first time of her anguish after the disappearance of her son 11 days ago.
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British hostage Kenneth Bigley has been shown on video pleading for Tony Blair&#39;s help, a sobering reminder of the grim reality for at least 18 foreign captives still held by Iraqi militants.
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The Nigerian kidnappers  of a three-year-old British girl have demanded money and  negotiations to secure her release are about to start, the  girl&#39;s mother told Reuters on Friday.
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British hostage Kenneth Bigley was reportedly made to plead for his life tonight in the latest sick video from his ruthless abductors.
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The family of Kenneth Bigley, the British hostage being held in Iraq, has made a direct appeal for his release to the militants who abducted the 62-year old-engineer.
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Sydney: Nada Hassan, the Sydney-based sister in-law of CARE Australia worker Margaret Hassan held hostage in Iraq, has made a dramatic plea to the kidnappers to set her free.