Gunmen Kidnap 2 Americans, Briton in Iraq
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A team of kidnappers grabbed two Americans and a Briton in a dawn raid on their home on a leafy Baghdad street Thursday - a bold abduction that underlines the increasing danger for foreigners in the embattled capital as violence soars ahead of national elections planned for early next year.    West of the capital, U.S...
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Two Americans and a Briton have been seized by kidnappers from their home in central Baghdad, an Iraqi Ministry of Interior representative has told CNN.
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Los Angeles Times - BAGHDAD &#8212; Militants said Tuesday that they had beheaded a second American hostage in as many days and threatened to kill a British captive, increasing pressure on President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair to confront a recent wave of kidnappings of foreigners in the Iraqi capital.
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Insurgents threatened to behead two Americans and a Briton captured in Baghdad on Saturday and launched a suicide car bomb attack on Iraqi security forces in the northern
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Gunmen abducted two Americans and a Briton in a brazen attack Thursday on a house in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood where many embassies and foreign companies are based, the Interior Ministry and witnesses said.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen kidnapped a Lebanese-American businessman, the second US citizen seized this week in Baghdad, officials said Wednesday.
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TWO Arab nationals, a US citizen and an Asian, were kidnapped today from their offices in Baghdad. Colonel Adnan Abdul Rahman, an interior ministry spokesman, said militants struck in a well-off neighbourhood in central Baghdad.
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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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BAGHDAD: Gunmen have kidnapped a Lebanese-American businessman, the second US citizen seized in Baghdad this week, as militants released a tape showing the beheading of an Iraqi officer for working with the &quot;infidel Americans&quot;.
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Three British nationals, believed to be  civilians, were snatched by gunmen from a house in central  Baghdad early on Thursday, Iraq's Interior Ministry said.
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Baghdad -- Masked gunmen kidnapped two Americans and a Briton from their Baghdad residence on Thursday in an attack that appeared to herald a new level of danger for foreign civilians in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen kidnapped two Americans and a Briton Thursday from a house in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood where many foreign companies are based, the Interior Ministry and witnesses said.    The three were employed by Gulf Services Company, a Middle East-based construction firm, and were seized from a two-story house surrounded by a wall in the al-Mansour neighborhood, said Col...
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Gunmen in Iraq kidnapped a Lebanese-American businessman today - the second US citizen seized this week in Baghdad â-s the countryâs almost daily routine of kidnapping and murder continued.
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Gunmen have kidnapped a Briton and two Americans from a house in an affluent central Baghdad neighbourhood, the latest in a nearly six-month campaign of abductions of foreigners in Iraq.
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Gunmen kidnapped an American, a Nepali and two Arab men from their Baghdad office on Monday, police said. &quot;They stormed the villa with automatic rifles and rocket- propelled grenades.
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Britain was urgently checking Tuesday reports that a group of westerners, possibly including Britons, has been kidnapped in Baghdad, the Foreign Office said.
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An American, along with two Arab nationals and an Asian, were taken hostage on Monday by gunmen in Baghdad, as violence continued in Iraq.