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Sydney Morning Herald
November 23, 2004
... compounds in Kabul and detained 12 people, but it was unclear if this operation had helped rescue the UN workers. There has been confusion over who had held the trio since the government said last week it did not believe they were with the Jaish-e Muslimeen faction and were probably with a criminalÃâà...
Sydney Morning Herald
November 2, 2004
The leader of Jaish-e-Muslimeen (Army of Muslims) told Reuters that the UN must also cease operations in Afghanistan, or the hostages would be killed "in such a way by which Muslims will be happy". The group also released a video of the hostages to the Arabic TV channel Al Jazeera showing them inÃâà...
BBC News
November 2, 2004
Three UN workers held hostage by militants in Afghanistan have appeared in a video shown by Arabic TV. The three appeared unharmed in the video, in which their kidnappers called for the release of prisoners from Afghan jails and Guantanamo Bay. Filipino Angelito Nayan, Annetta Flanigan fromÃâà...