live_movies Live Movies Live Movies in Human_Spaces on Earth The_saddam_magic the_taleban_'resurgence' the_saudi_'puzzle' the_palestinian_revenge The_fault_of_few_'Bad_Eggs' 040711 ... 49 minutes ago * Beheading_Threat * Filipino Hostage Thanks President on Tape http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=4&u=/ap/20040715/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_philippines_hostage_040715124349 BAGHDAD, Iraq - A Filipino truck driver being held hostage in Iraq said he was coming home soon and thanked his government for agreeing to withdraw peacekeepers from the country, according to a video shown Thursday on Al-Jazeera. 040715 ... a "Point" a_'dramatic_blow'_to_United__States_led_coalition_ 040715 ... 11 minutes ago Captors: Hostage Free After Troops Leave 040715 ... somebody 15 July, 2004, 15:18 GMT 16:18 UK Iraq kidnappers extend deadline http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3897267.stm The militant group holding a Filipino hostage in Iraq have said they will release him when the last Philippine soldier leaves the country. 040715 ... 16 minutes ago http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040716/wl_nm/philippines_iraq_dc&cid=574&ncid=1480 Philippines Says Begins Pull-Out of Iraq Troops 040715 ... 17 minutes ago * 16 July 2004 * http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040717/wl_afp/iraq_philippines_hostage&cid=1512&ncid=1480 First batch of troops withdrawn from Iraq to return to Philippines Monday 040716 ... 1 hour 19 minutes ago Philippines to withdraw all troops from Iraq on Monday: official http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040718/wl_afp/iraq_philippines_hostage&cid=1512&ncid=1480 040718 ... 19 July 2004 Philippines Completes Pullout From Iraq http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040719/ap_on_re_as/philippines_iraq&cid=516&ncid=716 51 minutes ago 040719 ... 20 July 2004 Filipino Hostage Is Released in Iraq 5 minutes ago http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040720/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_hostage&cid=540&ncid=1480 BAGHDAD, Iraq - A Filipino truck driver held hostage in Iraq for nearly two weeks has been freed, a spokesman for the Iraqi National Congress said 040720 ... ;) Amen. 040720 ... 4 minutes ago Philippines hostage free: Arroyo http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040720/wl_afp/iraq_philippines_hostage&cid=1512&ncid=1480 President Gloria Arroyo said in a televised address:- "I just spoke to him and his health is good, his spirits high and he sends best wishes to every Filipino," 040720 ... The Graces from Heaven Revelry erupts in Philippines as hostage is freed in Iraq http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040720/ts_afp/iraq_philippines_hostage_040720120316&e=2 BUENAVISTA, Philippines (AFP) - Revelry and tears greeted news of a Filipino hostage's release in his hometown and across the Philippines as President Gloria Arroyo defended her decision to strike a deal with his kidnappers. "I made a decision to bring our troops home a few days early in order to spare the life of Angelo," a beaming Arroyo said on national television. "I do not regret that decision. Every life is important." Children chanted 'Angelo! Angelo!' as they assembled around a television set here, while friends lit candles and offered prayers of thanks on a makshift altar near their small home overflowing with well-wishers. Many were tearfully hugging each other. - Angelo's Hometown and across of the Philippines 040720 ... 21 July 2004 what's_next? Oops... * New Beheading_threat in Iraq * 2 hours 7 minutes ago Group Threatens to Behead 6 New Hostages http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=1&u=/ap/20040721/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_040721195327 BAGHDAD, Iraq - Militants took six foreign truck drivers hostage and threatened Wednesday to behead them unless their company ends its business in Iraq, and their countries ¡ª India, Egypt and Kenya ¡ª pull all their citizens out. 040721 ... 22 July 2004 Diplomats Work to Free Six Hostages in Iraq 4 minutes ago http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040722/wl_nm/iraq_dc&cid=574&ncid=1480 BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Diplomats in Baghdad battled on Thursday to win the release of three captured Indians, two Kenyans and an Egyptian after their kidnappers threatened to behead them one by one unless their employer pulled out of Iraq 13 minutes ago http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040722/wl_afp/iraq_india_hostage_reax&cid=1512&ncid=1480 India to do 'whatever possible' to secure release of hostages 040722 ... 22 July 2004 24 minutes ago BAGHDAD, Iraq - Police discovered a decapitated body in an orange jumpsuit and a head in a bag on the banks of the Tigris River, authorities said Thursday, prompting fears that a second Bulgarian hostage has been killed. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040723/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq&cid=540&ncid=1480 Body Discovery Stokes Iraq Hostage Tension 040722 ... 22 July 2004 Kenya citizens 'must leave Iraq' http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3917399.stm The Kenyan government has urged all its citizens to leave Iraq immediately. 040723 ... 23 July 2004 Egyptian Diplomat Abducted in Iraq 1 hour, 27 minutes ago http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=1&u=/ap/20040723/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_040723211929 BAGHDAD, Iraq - Militants kidnapped a senior Egyptian diplomat as he left a mosque Friday and demanded his country abandon any plans to send security experts to support Iraq's new government, according to a video broadcast on the Al-Jazeera television station. 040723 ... 23 July 2004 Nearly_'70_foreigners'_taken_hostage_in_Iraq 040723 ... 2 hours 9 minutes ago Egyptian diplomat kidnapped; Cairo swears off deployment to Iraq http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040724/wl_afp/iraq_worldwrap&cid=1512&ncid=1480 040723 ... 48-Hr Deadline Iraq Group Gives New 48-Hr Deadline Over Hostages Fri Jul 23, 2:24 PM ET http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=564&ncid=564&e=1&u=/nm/20040723/ts_nm/security_iraq_kuwait_tape_dc_2 "They gave a Kuwaiti company 48 hours to answer demands for the hostages' release. They said the company must pay compensation to the families of the dead in Falluja, and Iraqi prisoners in American and Kuwait jails should be released," 040723 ... 40 minutes ago More kidnaps reported in Iraq as Kuwait finds assassination plans http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040725/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_worldwrap&cid=1514&ncid=1480 48-hour extension was announced by the "Holders of the Black Banners" group on Al-Jazeera 040725 ... but 4:11 p.m. ET July 26, 2004 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5473325/ BAGHDAD, Iraq - An Egyptian diplomat was freed by his captors Monday, 5 new kidnappings reported 040726 ... . Two Jordanians, two Pakistanis, Iraqi shown in videos 040726 ... 28 July 2004 Iraq Captors Kill Two Pakistani Hostages-Jazeera 2 hours, 38 minutes ago http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040728/ts_nm/iraq_pakistan_hostages_dc&cid=564&ncid=1473 DUBAI (Reuters) - Militants in Iraq have killed two Pakistani hostages and have released an Iraqi 040728 ... 29 July 2004 Tape: Terror Group Kidnaps Somali in Iraq 16 minutes ago http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040729/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_kidnapped_somali&cid=540&ncid=1480 BAGHDAD, Iraq - The terrorist group of Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi kidnapped a Somali truck driver working for a Kuwaiti company in Iraq (news - web sites), according to a videotape aired 040729 ... 29 July 2004 1 hour, 18 minutes ago http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040729/wl_mideast_afp/pakistan_iraq_hostages&cid=1514&ncid=1473 Pakistan condemns hostage killing in Iraq; families blame government 040729 ... 30 July 2004 Families of Indian hostages in Iraq make appeal as execution deadline looms 7 minutes ago http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040730/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_india_hostage&cid=1514&ncid=1480 040730 ... 30 July 2004 Indians protest as Iraq hostage deadline nears http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5473325/ Kidnappers holding seven foreigners say one will die Friday 040730 ... . The kidnappers have demanded that the Kuwaiti transport company the seven men worked for should stop doing business in Iraq or they will behead the men one by one. 040730 ... 30 July 2004 Kidnappers Say They Will Free Jordanians 20 minutes ago http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040730/ap_on_re_mi_ea/jordan_iraq_kidnappings&cid=540&ncid=1480 AMMAN, Jordan - The kidnappers of four Jordanians in Iraq have promised to release them Saturday because their relatives and fellow staged an anti-American demonstration as demanded of them, the brother of a hostage said late Friday. 040730 ... 31 July 2004 Deadline for Iraq hostages looms 9 minutes ago http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040731/wl_afp/iraq&cid=1512&ncid=1480 Islamic militants have issued a "last chance" for the employer and governments of three Indians, three Kenyans and an Egyptian to capitulate to its demands or they will start executing their captives at 1500 GMT. 040731 ... 29 minutes ago Iraqi Militants Claim to Kidnap Two Turks http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040801/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq&cid=540&ncid=716BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi militants said Saturday they kidnapped two Turks and threatened to behead them within 48 hours, the latest in the country's unrelenting wave of abductions, even as efforts intensified to free seven truck drivers taken captive by other insurgents. 040731 ... 2 August 2004 Turk Truckers to Stop Serving U.S. Forces in Iraq 1 hour, 46 minutes ago http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&e=8&u=/nm/20040802/wl_nm/iraq_turkey_truckers_dc_1 ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's International Transporters' Association (UND) said Monday it would stop ferrying goods to U.S. forces in Iraq after a wave of kidnappings of Turkish drivers. 040802 ... 2 August 2004 Turkish hostage's 'killing' shown 2 August, 2004, 12:30 GMT 13:30 UK http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3527602.stm The man was blindfolded before being shot http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39910000/jpg/_39910524_netgrab-203.jpg 040802 ... 2 August 2004 Iraq Church Bombs Response to 'Crusader War' - Claim Mon Aug 2, 5:04 PM ET http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&ncid=721&e=5&u=/nm/20040802/wl_nm/security_iraq_church_dc 040802 ... anti-Christian coalition In_search_of_the_'goodness'_of_Saddam_Regime What's_the_'Point'? 040802 ... An "amazing" newslink Whence_old_Saddam_regime_is_better_than_new_Iraq 040802 ... 3 August 2004 Pakistan Won't Send Troops to Iraq http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&e=5&u=/nm/20040803/wl_nm/pakistan_iraq_troops_dc_1 LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan will not send troops to Iraq, Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said Tuesday, hours after the prime minister said a decision would depend on what his people wanted. "We are not sending troops. Other countries are withdrawing troops so how can we send them?" 040803 ... 4 August 2004 Iraqi governor resigns after kidnappers release sons Wed Aug 4,12:43 PM ET http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1514&e=13&u=/afp/20040804/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_hostages_ramadi_040804164348 RAMADI, Iraq (AFP) - The governor of Iraq (news - web sites)'s restive Al-Anbar province resigned after three of his sons were released by their kidnappers on condition he quit. 040804 ... 5 August 2004 Al-Sadr Militia Battles U.S., Iraq Troops 38 minutes ago http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040806/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq&cid=540&ncid=1480 040805 ... 6 minutes ago Italian Troops Clash with Shi'ite Militia in Iraq http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040806/wl_nm/iraq_nassiriya_dc&cid=574&ncid=1480 NASSIRIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - Italian forces clashed with Shi'ite militia fighters in the southern city of Nassiriya early on Friday and tensions were still high, an Italian military spokesman said. 040805 ... 6 August 2004 Iraqi Militia Battle U.S., British, Italian Troops 4 minutes ago http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040806/ts_nm/iraq_dc&cid=564&ncid=1480 BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Militia loyal to rebel cleric Moqtada al-Sadr battled U.S., British and Italian forces across central and southern Iraq overnight and into Friday, threatening to reignite a Shi'ite uprising. 040806 ... 1 hour 43 minutes ago Four Lebanese Drivers Taken Hostage in Iraq http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040806/wl_nm/iraq_hostages_lebanon_dc&cid=574&ncid=1473 040806 ... 18 minutes ago http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040807/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_american_beheaded&cid=540&ncid=1480 American Beheaded in Islamic Online Video 040807 ... 7 August 2004 Al-Qaeda group 'beheads US man' http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3544032.stm The man says he is from San Francisco, but it is unclear if and when he was taken hostage 040807 ... . The video was titled “Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Slaughters an American http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5629119/ 040807 ... 5 minutes ago S.F. Man Says Beheading Video Is a Hoax http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040807/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_american_beheaded&cid=540&ncid=1480 040807 ... 7 August 2004 Turkish truck driver taken hostage in Iraq Sat Aug 7,10:38 AM ET http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1514&e=9&u=/afp/20040807/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_turkey_hostage_040807143814 SAMARRA, Iraq (AFP) - A Turkish truck driver was being held hostage by Islamic militants who have demanded that his company quit Iraq 040807 ... 8 August 2004 Iranian Diplomat Reportedly Held in Iraq 10 minutes ago http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040808/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_iranian_diplomat&cid=540&ncid=716 040808 ... 16 minutes ago Iran confirms diplomat kidnapped in Iraq 040808 ... 8 August 2004 Kuwaiti Co. Ends Hostage Negotiations 040809 ... 9 August 2004 World oil prices close at all-time highs as Iraqi oilfields halt pumping http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040809/ts_afp/oil_price&cid=1503&ncid=1473 The Southern Oil Company ceased production for "security reasons" after Shiite militia threatened to attack infrastructure, 040809 ... 9 August 2004 Five truck drivers from Lebanon, Jordan and Syria who were being held hostage in Iraq have been freed, their families said on Monday. 040809 ... 10 August 2004 At Least 30 Killed in Iraq Clashes in Past 24 Hours 17 minutes ago BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 30 people were killed and 219 wounded in fighting involving U.S. forces and Shi'ite militiamen in Iraqi cities in the past 24 hours, A spokesman said he did not have the identities of the victims, but said it was likely that most of them were civilians http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040811/ts_nm/iraq_toll_dc&cid=564&ncid=1480 040811 ... 11 August 2004 British troops, Shiite militia clash in Amara, Kut 1 hour, 58 minutes ago http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040811/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_unrest_shiites_040811080328&e=1 For three hours from 1:00 am (2100 GMT), British jets bombed three districts of the city where militiamen are believed to be holed up, damaging six houses and cutting off electricity supplies. Six people were killed and 15 were wounded overnight 040811 ... 11 August 2004 United_States_prepares_major_offensive_in_Najaf 040811 ... a "point" Web Site Shows Apparent Beheading Tape Wed Aug 11, 7:33 PM ET http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=1&u=/ap/20040811/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_beheading_7 CAIRO, Egypt - An Islamic Web site carried a videotape Wednesday that appeared to show militants in Iraq beheading a man identified as a CIA agent. 040811 ... 12 August 2004 Group Warns El Salvador Not to Send Troops to Iraq http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&e=22&u=/nm/20040812/wl_nm/iraq_salvador_threat_dc_1 DUBAI (Reuters) - A Islamist militant group has threatened to turn Iraq (news - web sites) into a "hell" for Salvadorean troops if their government goes ahead with plans to send a new contingent, according to an Internet statement posted on Thursday. 040812 ... 15 August 2004 Kidnapped Iranian diplomat faces "punishment" threat: Iran TV AFP - 14 minutes ago 040815 ... 16 August 2004 Italy, Netherlands Threatened Over Iraq 4 minutes ago CAIRO, Egypt - An online statement purportedly from an Islamic militant group threatened the Netherlands and Italy with "bloodbaths" if they do not withdraw their troops from Iraq 040816 ... An "amazing" newslink * Live Movies - Terror_Warning * Mon Aug 16, 7:16 PM ET Salvador delays troop deployment amid extremists' threat 040816 ... 18 August 2004 Group to Kill U.S. Hostage if U.S. Doesn't Quit Najaf Wed 5:17 PM ET 040818 ... 20 August 2004 Al-Jazeera airs footage of US journalist giving message from Iraqi captors 4 minutes ago 040820 ... The Graces from Heaven "I am an American journalist in Iraq, and I was asked to pass on a message from the Martyrs Squad, who want the American people to strive to stop the slaughter in Najaf," 040820 ... 21 August 2004 Militants: Death Threat on Hostage Lifted AP - 13 minutes ago 040821 ... Yahoo! Search http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040821/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_hostages&cid=540&ncid=1480 BAGHDAD, Iraq - Kidnappers have lifted their threat to kill a U.S. journalist abducted in the southern city of Nasiriyah along with his Iraqi translator, an aide to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada_al_Sadr said Saturday. 040821 ... . * Moqtada_al_Sadr * 040821 ... 21 August 2004 · Two French Journalists Missing in Iraq - Ministry Reuters - 1 hour, 35 minutes ago 040821 ... . Missing Italian reporter probably kidnapped in Iraq, editor says - AFP via Yahoo! News (Aug 21, 2004) 040821 ... Yahoo! Search Nepal seeks to check reports of kidnapped citizens in Iraq Sat Aug 21, 7:47 AM ET KATHMANDU (AFP) - Nepal's government said it was checking labour records for information