Adult foreigners being held hostage, the statement said, could expect to eat less.

In all, 9 Americans are among 21 foreigners still being held hostage in Beirut.

American troops discovered Al-Harith among numerous foreigners held by the Taliban in jail in Kandahar and released him.

So, presumably, could many of the 14,000-plus foreigners being held in immigration detention centers or jails around the country, a figure that has jumped from about 11,000 a year ago.

The department said the prisoners were not entitled to see their lawyers because they were foreigners held outside the jurisdiction of the United States.

The guerrillas later released another seven hostages, bringing the total freed to 46, and pledged to release some or all of the 75 foreigners held in the crowd.

Following is a transcript of a televised conversation between President Saddam Hussein and several English-speaking foreigners held at an undisclosed location in Iraq.

Insisting on procedural safeguards, the court decided that federal courts are entitled to hear the legal objections of foreigners being held at Guantánamo Bay.

Charles Clarke, the home secretary, warned that without new laws, 11 foreigners being held without trial or charge at Belmarsh Prison would be freed.

They are among the 17,000 foreigners held by the Immigration and Naturalization Service in prisons and jails around the country.