2 Australians, 2 Asians feared kidnapped in northern Iraq
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BAGHDAD - An armed Islamic group kidnapped two Australians and two East Asians in the northern Iraqi city of Samarra on Monday, the Dubai-based television broadcaster Al-Arabiya reported.
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Gunmen abducted three members of Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi&#39;s family from their Baghdad home, his spokesman said Wednesday, and militants said they would be beheaded in two days if the siege of Fallujah was not lifted.
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ELEANOR HALL: After holding Iraqi citizen and CARE Australia worker, Margaret Hassan for two weeks, her captors have now threatened to hand her over to al-Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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The South Korean government was checking  reports that one or two of its nationals may have been  kidnapped in Iraq, Foreign Ministry officials said on Sunday.
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CANBERRA - Australia&#39;s foreign minister says it may be several days before the government can verify whether two Australian security guards have been taken hostage in Iraq.
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Australian officials have been investigating unconfirmed reports that an Iraqi group has captured two Australian security workers in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD, Nov 2  - An American, Filipino and Nepalese and at least one Iraqi working for a Saudi company were among a group of people kidnapped at gunpoint from their Baghdad offices on Monday, a US embassy spokesman said Tuesday.
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There is still no confirmation of reports that two Australians working as security guards in Iraq are being held hostage by Islamic extremists.
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BAGHDAD - Two Indonesian women working for an electricity firm are among 10 new hostages reported seized by militants in Iraq. The Arab news network Al-Jazeera showed footage yesterday in which a group called
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TWO Australians reportedly have been kidnapped in Iraq and threatened with execution within 24 hours unless John Howard withdraws Australian troops from the war-torn country.
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Australia sent a special hostage rescue team to Iraq as it tried to unravel the mystery surrounding claims that Islamic militants had kidnapped two Australian security guards, officials said.
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Two young Italian women kidnapped in Iraq last week have been taken by their captors to the flashpoint city of Fallujah, according to an Italian newspaper that quoted non-Italian intelligence services.
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The US embassy confirmed Thursday that two Americans and one Briton were kidnapped in Baghdad. &quot;Two American citizens, Jack Hensley and Eugene &#39;Jack&#39; Armstrong, were kidnapped
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Australia&#39;s government has accounted for 88 non-military Australians working in Iraq and a claim that two Australians were taken hostage there may be a hoax, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said.
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At least 14 Iraqi police go missing north of Baghdad, as militants say they kidnapped 18 in the same area.
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JAKARTA : Two Indonesian women working for a British company in Iraq were among 10 people kidnapped by an Islamic militant group, officials in Jakarta confirmed on Friday.
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At least 14 Iraqi police officers were missing and feared abducted after an al Qaeda-linked group on Friday showed pictures of 18 men it said were kidnapped to avenge the alleged rape of a woman last month.