Three Americans kidnapped by militia members in Baghdad

[MowCowWhoHow III]

Source: The Independent

Three Americans have been kidnapped by militants in the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad.

According to Arab news channel Al-Arabiya, well-informed sources in Baghdad have confirmed that the kidnapping took place in the south of the city on Sunday.

The US State Department confirmed it was aware of the reports, and said it was working with Iraqi authorities to locate and recover the missing Americans.

The identities of the kidnap victims or the militias have not yet been confirmed.

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/three-americans-kidnapped-baghdad-iraq-militants-a6818286.html

[a kennedy]

1. What the hell......... eom

[bananas]

2. "Contractors" working for an unnamed company: probably mercenaries

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141317482

3 American contractors missing in Iraq

Source: CNN

(CNN)Three American contractors are missing in Iraq, a senior security official in Baghdad says.

"A company filed a report Sunday about three of its staff going missing. ... They are American contractors. We are looking into this report," the official told CNN.

Separately, an Iraqi security official with knowledge of the case said that two of the contractors are dual Iraqi-American citizens and that the third is an American national.

Gunmen grabbed the men at an apartment in Baghdad's southeastern Dora neighborhood late Friday afternoon, the source said.

Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/01/17/middleeast/iraq-missing-american-contractors/

[maxsolomon]

3. Partition the goddamn place already - Kurds, Shiia, and Sunni.

Should have been done 12 years ago.

Sunni extremism, whether religious or political, won't stop until they have control over their own territory - kind of like they did before we invaded Iraq.

Prediction: the Mercs won't be recovered, unless millions are paid to ISIS.

[PersonNumber503602]

4. Did they state these are security contractors?

Could very well be technical contractors working on oil, communications, or a host of other things.

ahhh found something

"The missing men work for a security service company called Sallyport, the Iraqi official said. However, a spokesman for Michael Baker International, Sallyport's parent company, said the report was false."

Iraqi-Americans and Egyptian-Americans.

[maxsolomon]

5. and it sounds like the Shiia militias took them

probably a mundane ransom kidnapping.