Afghan women protest American kidnapping
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About 500 Afghan women gathered in a rare mass protest Tuesday against the kidnapping of an American aid worker. The women, many wearing burqas, called on officials to find the captive American and urged the kidnappers to release her.
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Taliban-linked militants have threatened to execute three foreign UN workers kidnapped in Kabul unless British troops withdraw from Afghanistan and Afghan prisoners are freed from US custody in Guantanamo Bay.
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Thousands of Somalis chanted anti-American slogans on Monday at an Islamist protest against a U.S.-backed plan to send foreign peacekeepers to prop up the country's tottering interim government.
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The United States is opposed to negotiations with hostage-takers who abducted three United Nations staffers in Afghanistan last month, US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said.
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The family of Angelito Nayan appealed Tuesday to kidnappers in Afghanistan to free the United Nations worker and asked some sectors in the Philippines not to exploit their kinsman&#39;s plight to advance their political agenda.
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There is no evidence to support claims by three Americans that they were severely beaten in jail since their arrest on charges they kidnapped Afghans as part of a freelance
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Kabul, Afghanistan -- The kidnapping of three foreign election workers has raised fears that an Iraq-style hostage crisis may be about to engulf the country.
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With time running out for a British  hostage, U.S. and Iraqi officials said on Wednesday they would  not free female Iraqi prisoners as demanded by an al Qaeda ally  whose group has already beheaded two Americans.
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Media groups expressed concern Thursday at the detention of an Afghan journalist with no explanation, days after a government magazine editor was arrested on unspecified charges.
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A purported Taliban militant set off grenades strapped to his body on a bustling Kabul street Saturday, killing an American woman and an Afghan girl.
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Militants holding a Briton and two other foreign UN workers in Afghanistan have threatened to kill them unless all Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners are released from US
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Afghanistan's Taliban guerrillas reiterated on Wednesday that they had nothing to do with the kidnapping of three U.N. workers and said they opposed the use of women as hostages for the release of prisoners.
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A militant group claiming responsibility for kidnapping three foreign UN workers said Saturday it will execute them unless Britain withdraws its troops from Afghanistan and two other governments stop supporting US policy here.
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Hundreds of supporters of the deposed governor of Afghanistan&#39;s western province of Herat took to the streets and burned United Nations offices on Sunday to protest against his removal by President Hamid Karzai.
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A group of 20 Afghan women offered on Thursday to take the place of three foreign UN workers held hostage for the past two weeks by a Taliban splinter group.
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Women stage a rare demonstration in Afghanistan calling for the release of a kidnapped US aid worker.
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Thousands rally in the Afghan capital Kabul to voice support for a controversial proposed war crimes amnesty.