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Iraqi insurgents yesterday kidnapped an American and up to five others in an audacious attack on a house in western Baghdad. An interior ministry source told the Guardian the militants approached the villa
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A Briton and two Americans became the latest foreigners to be kidnapped in Iraq yesterday when gunmen burst into their house in central Baghdad and dragged them off into a van.
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BAGHDAD, 2 November 2004 - One US citizen and five other employees of a Saudi trading company were kidnapped in Baghdad yesterday, plunging the country further into crisis on the eve of the US presidential elections.
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Gunmen stormed the compound of a Saudi company in a fashionable Baghdad neighborhood Monday, seizing an American, a Nepalese and four Iraqis after a gunbattle in which a guard and an assailant were killed, police said.
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Gunmen snatched two Americans and a  Briton from a house in an affluent neighborhood of central  Baghdad on Thursday, the latest in a nearly six-month campaign  of abductions of foreigners in Iraq.
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Gunmen stormed on Monday the compound of a Saudi company Baghdad neighborhood Monday, seizing an American, a Nepalese and two Iraqis, but the two Iraqi were freed shortly after their seizure.
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A man believed to be a US contractor of Lebanese origin has been seized by gunmen in Baghdad overnight, Iraqi police have reported.
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Gunmen kidnapped a burqa-clad American aid worker and her driver while they were traveling through volatile southern Afghanistan early Saturday, a provincial governor said.
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A Briton was tonight missing with two American colleagues after they were seized by gunmen from their house in Baghdad. The three were hauled away by militants without a shot
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A team of kidnappers grabbed two Americans and a Briton in a dawn raid on their home on a leafy Baghdad street Thursday &#151; 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.
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BAGHDAD -- Kidnappers seized two Americans and a Briton from their central Baghdad villa at dawn yesterday, in a bold raid that could further limit the mobility of foreigners in the Iraqi capital.
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Gunmen kidnapped two Americans and a  Briton from a house in an affluent central Baghdad neighborhood  Thursday, the latest in a nearly six-month campaign of  abductions of foreigners in Iraq.
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A team of kidnappers grabbed two Americans and a Briton in a dawn raid on their home Thursday -- a bold abduction that underscores the increasing danger for foreigners in the
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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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A group of men armed with assault rifles and revolvers have kidnapped an employee of US television channel CNN in Gaza City. His abductors blocked a taxi carrying several CNN staff in the centre of the city
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BAGHDAD -- Gunmen kidnapped a Lebanese-American entrepreneur, the second US citizen seized this week in Baghdad, and videotape yesterday showed the beheadings of three Iraqi National Guardsmen and an Iraqi officer.
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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...