Four Americans missing in Iraq after convoy attacked
Five people in Iraq, including four Americans, were taken hostage in southern Iraq when a civilian truck convoy was hijacked just after crossing the Kuwaiti border.
“The convoy was seized near Safwan yesterday,” one source told Reuters in Basra, the main city in southern Iraq. An Austrian and nine Iraqis were also abducted by the gunmen but some of the Iraqis had already been released, he added.
The family of one American security contractor told a U.S. newspaper that U.S. officials said he had been captured. (Reuters)
Four Americans Kidnapped in Iraq, Austrian Civilian Killed
The five men work for The Crescent Security Group, which provide security for military, civilian, and diplomatice convoys in Iraq (The Jawa Report)
Go to the Jawa Report for updates … UPDATE: Now reports of two Americans freed.
Spc. Ahmed K. Altaie is still hostage in Iraq. Other American hostages in Iraq still missing.
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