Two German government workers missing in Iraq

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Two German government workers missing in Iraq
32 minutes ago Add Mideast - AFP to My Yahoo!



BERLIN (AFP) - Two German government security workers have been missing in Iraq (news - web sites) for several days, the German foreign ministry told AFP.



"Two civil servants working for the German mission in Baghdad have been missing for the past few days," a ministry spokeswowan said Saturday, confirming earlier television reports.


"There is no evidence to suggest it is a hostage-taking."


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040410/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_germany_missing&cid=1514&ncid=1473

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1. US soldiers missing and one statement from BBC with no story

Two U.S. soldiers and an unknown number of civilian contractors are unaccounted for after a fuel convoy was attacked Friday near Baghdad International Airport, a senior Pentagon official says.


http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/04/09/iraq.main/index.html


LATEST: TV pictures shown of man, apparently American, taken hostage in Iraq. More soon.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/default.stm

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2. "government security workers"

The two men are members of the elite federal police squad GSG-9, they are the German Uber-SWAT.

German internet magazines are reporting that German TV is reporting that they have been taken hostage(I 'm probably a few thousand miles from the next chance to watch that channel, so I can't really comment.)