Meanwhile, three hostages were freed -- two Turkish contract workers whose employer agreed to stop doing business with the U.S. military in Iraq, and a Pakistani driver, according to officials in Islamabad. In one of Friday's strikes, insurgents used the back of a van parked next to central Baghdad ...
Iraqi militants beheaded South Korean hostage Kim Sun-il after earlier threats that he would be killed if South Korea did not withdraw troops from Iraq.
RAY SUAREZ: Rajiv Chandrasekaran, welcome. It seemed that over the last day or so, there were more optimistic noises coming out of Baghdad regarding the kidnapping of this Korean hostage. What changed suddenly in the last half-day or so? RAJIV CHANDRASEKARAN: Well, it's hard to tell exactly what ...
... According to the Associated Press, the group posted a statement on an extremist Web site saying, "In answer to what we promised ... to kill the hostage Paul Marshall (Johnson) after the period is over ... the infidel got his fair treatment". "This is so that he can taste what Muslims have ...
An al-Qaida cell in Saudi Arabia on Friday beheaded its hostage, Paul Johnson, an American contractor, after the Saudi government refused to release suspected al-Qaida members. Ray Suarez and regional experts discuss the security situation for foreign citizens in Saudi Arabia.
... against Iraqi prisoner abuse at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison. A Turkish Foreign Ministry official told Reuters that it "appears seven people have been taken hostage. We don't have any concrete information on their identities." The official said the Turkish ambassador in Baghdad and Turkish intelligence services were trying ...
The video shows the hostage, who identifies himself as 26-year-old Pennsylvania businessman Nick Berg, seated in front of five masked individuals, one of whom reads a statement in Arabic. Berg is then pushed to the floor while one of his captors cuts off his head with a large ...
Three Japanese taken hostage in Iraq were released Thursday, but violence continued there with the murder of an Iranian diplomat, renewed fighting in Fallujah and a stalemate in Najaf.
This raises fears that they may join the more than two dozen foreigners from 11 countries that were taken hostage in separate incidents by insurgents over the last week. On Saturday a video was released with one American hostage, Thomas Hamill, a truck driver for Kellogg, Brown & Root, a subsidiary ...
The new hostages add to the three Japanese aid workers, two Palestinian residents of Israel and one Canadian worker taken hostage during an earlier wave of kidnappings this week. Some of those detained have been released. Seven South Korean Christian missionaries were briefly held and later released Thursday. The New ...
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