List: Foreigners kidnapped in Iraq

Here is a list of foreigners known to have been seized or released by kidnappers in the last few days in Iraq.

April 8

-- An unknown group releases a video showing three Japanese civilians who have been kidnapped -- Noriaki Imai, 18, who had planned to look into the effects of depleted uranium weapons; aid worker Nahoko Takato, 34; and freelance photojournalist Soichiro Koriyama, 32.

The three remained missing on Monday. Kyodo news agency reported on Sunday that an unidentified negotiator said they were safe in Iraq. The captors had threatened to burn the hostages alive unless Japan withdrew its troops from Iraq by April 11. The Japanese government rejected the demand.

-- Iranian television airs footage of two men said to be kidnapped in Iraq. Palestinian Nabil George Razuq, 30, a resident of Israeli-controlled East Jerusalem, and Fadi Ihsan Fadel, a Canadian humanitarian worker, are said to be held by the "Ansar a-Din" group which describes them in a videotape as spies for Israel.

Razuq is employed by Research Triangle International, a North Carolina-based, independent non-profit organisation with a major reconstruction contract in Iraq.

Fadel had been working for the New York-based relief group International Rescue Committee. In the videotape he was wrongly named as Ahmed Yassin Tikati, family and colleagues said.

-- Gunmen kidnap seven South Korean evangelical church pastors but free them the same day.

April 9

-- Iraqi insurgents attack a US convoy in Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad. Three days later, Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, commander of US forces in Iraq, said seven contractors for US company Kellogg, Brown & Root and two US soldiers were missing after an attack on a convoy in Abu Ghraib.

An American being held by Iraqi guerrillas, who identified himself as Thomas Hamill, said in television footage he was the only survivor of an April 9 convoy attack at Abu Ghraib.

-- Iraqi guerrillas say they have seized four Italians. Italy says all Italians registered in Iraq are accounted for.

April 10

-- An Iraqi group tells Al Arabiya television it is holding 30 foreign hostages and threatens to behead them unless US forces lift a blockade of Falluja. It offers no proof.

-- The German Foreign Ministry says two German security officials have gone missing while travelling from Jordan to Germany's embassy in Baghdad. The German Foreign Ministry says on April 11 the two guards had probably been killed while escorting diplomats to Baghdad.

April 11

-- Gary Teeley, 37, a British civilian contractor missing in the southern Iraqi town of Nassiriya since at least April 8, is freed and in the hands of coalition forces.

-- A masked man says on a videotape eight other hostages -- three Pakistanis, two Turks, an Indian, a Nepalese and a Filipino -- had been freed.

April 12

-- Two Czech Television journalists are missing in Iraq and may have been kidnapped, the broadcaster says.

-- Czech state radio reporter Vit Pohanka, who was also due to make a trip from Baghdad to Amman, is unaccounted for, the local CTK news agency says.

-- Seven Chinese nationals who had been abducted in Falluja the day before have been released, the official Xinhua news agency says.

-- Eight employees of a Russian energy company in Iraq have been kidnapped in Baghdad.

April 13

-- Five Ukrainians and three Russians working for an engineering company released after one night in captivity.

-- Four Italian hostages are shown on film. A hitherto unheard of Iraqi Islamist group, the Mujahideen Brigades, demands Italy withdraw its forces from Iraq.

-- Alexandre Jourdanov, 45, a reporter for the French television news agency Capa is announced kidnapped by an unknown group near Baghdad. Capa said he was kidnapped on April 11.

-- A New Zealand family says they believe their son, Andreas Schafer, of New Plmouth, may have disappeared in Iraq.

Herald Feature: Iraq