AP: Gunmen in Baghdad kidnap Iraqi diplomat

[Eugene]

Posted on Tue, Jul. 11, 2006

Gunmen in Baghdad kidnap Iraqi diplomat
Associated Press

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen on Tuesday kidnapped an Iraqi diplomat
who specializes in relations with Iran as he was driving
near his home in Baghdad, the Foreign Ministry said.

Wissam Jabr al-Awadi was seized in the city's Amil neighborhood
when kidnappers in three vehicles blocked his car on his way to work,
police Lt. Mohammed Khayoun said.

The Iraqi Foreign Ministry confirmed the abduction and said al-Awadi
was an Iraqi consular in the Iranian city of Kermanshah, a city with a
large Kurdish population near the border with Iraq.

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Full article: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/special_packages/iraq/15010662.htm

[TomInTib]

1. Really not a good turn of events.

If the Kurds are - in any form or fashion - actively involved, Iraq will soon self-immolate.

[opihimoimoi]

2. Its all over but the shoutin...Iraq has gone from Bad to Worse...