Behind the hostage crisis
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Nobody could fail to be moved by Lil Bigley&#39;s televised plea to Iraqi militants to have mercy on her son Ken, the 62-year-old British contractor who has been held by the Tawhid and Jihad Group for the past week.
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The bloody end to the hostage crisis in Russia leaves unfathomable human suffering. More than three hundred children, parents and teachers died in the gruesome 52-hour siege that began
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SYDNEY : Australia sent a special hostage rescue team to Iraq as it tried to unravel the mystery surrounding claims that Islamic militants have kidnapped two Australian security guards, officials said.
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More controversy brews over Russia's handling of the hostage crisis in Beslan
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Hostage escaped but was recaptured and killed HOSTAGE Ken Bigley was murdered after escaping his captors for almost 30 minutes. Locals saw the terrified Briton fleeing through farmland near the lawless Iraqi town of Latifiya.
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The hostage crisis in Iraq has worsened with gunmen kidnapping two Italian women aid workers and two Iraqis from their offices in Baghdad.
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The whole country is uniting to secure the release of the hostages and support their families in this ordeal.
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Conflicting reports of ransom demands, rescues and deaths cloud the search for a group of abducted Western security contractors
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Painful as President Vladimir Putin&#39;s dilemma may be in resolving Russia&#39;s latest hostage crisis, both Russians and the West are likely to blame the hostage-takers more than him if it ends badly, analysts say.
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The tragedy of Ken Bigley&#39;s kidnap and eventual murder was matched only by the courage of a family who refused to give up. This is the inside story of the desperate attempts to free him.
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Confusion still surrounds reports hostage Ken Bigley tried to flee his captors shortly before he was beheaded.
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10/21/04. The kidnapping of CARE&#39;s director in Iraq, Margaret Hassan, is arguably no different in kind from the now-routine takings committed for cash or for political profit, but somehow it
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A Sri Lankan government minister was taken hostage by a TV station after he complained it had failed to cover one of his speeches. By John Plunkett
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BAGHDAD : Iraq&#39;s hostage crisis deepened as Islamists who beheaded two Americans let a Briton make a desperate videotaped plea, while another extremist group claimed to have executed two women Italian aid workers.
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US teams tried to rescue two Americans and a Briton held hostage in Iraq before they were killed, sources say.
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The life of a British hostage is in the balance amid reports that one of two Iraqi women that his Islamic kidnappers have demanded to be released could be freed by the US military.
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The family of a Canadian woman held hostage for 16 days in Iraq is offering new details into her ordeal. Roxanne Yamulky says her sister, Fairuz, was held for ransom before escaping with the help of an Iraqi national.