Egyptian ambassador to Iraq kidnapped -diplomat
July 3, 2005
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Egypt’s ambassador to Iraq waskidnapped late on Saturday in Baghdad, an Egyptian diplomatsaid on Sunday.
“He was buying a newspaper on Saturday evening when twoBMWs full of gunmen blocked his way and kidnapped him,” thediplomat told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.
In Cairo, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman’s officesaid, “That report is not confirmed.”
Iraq said just last week that Ayheb al-Sherif would take upfull ambassadorial rank to become the first Arab diplomat tohold that status in Baghdad since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
A senior Egyptian diplomat was kidnapped in the Iraqicapital last year and released unharmed after several days.
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