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Sunnis appeal for release of four Christian humanitarian workers kidnapped in Iraq (Patrick Quinn, December 9, 2005, Associated Press)

Prominent Sunni Arab clerics and residents of a Baghdad neighborhood where four kidnapped Christian humanitarian workers had aided people appealed Friday for their release a day before a deadline set by their abductors to kill them.

Sunni Arab clerics also took the opportunity of Friday prayers to urge a big Sunni turnout in the Dec. 15 elections, saying that voting was a "religious duty'' that could hasten the departure of American troops.