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Kidnappings Increase Across Iraq

HeadlineSep 20, 2004

Kidnappers have threatened to kill two American contractors and a British engineer unless all Muslim women held at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad and at another prison in the southern city of Umm Qasr were released. Another resistance group has claimed it has kidnapped 15 members of the Iraqi National Guard. And a video has emerged online purportedly showing three Iraqi members of a Kurdish party being beheaded. And Agence France Press is reporting about a dozen Turkish truck drivers have been either killed or abducted in Sunni Muslim strongholds north of Baghdad over the past two days.

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