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Iraqi PM Allawi's family members kidnapped
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-11-10 17:11 Three members of Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad
Allawi's family have been kidnapped by gunmen, a spokesman for the Iraqi interim
government said on Wednesday.
Three members of
Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's family have been kidnapped by gunmen, a
spokesman for the Iraqi interim government said on November 10, 2004.
Allawi is seen in this November 8, 2004, file photo briefing reporters on
Falluja during a press conference in Baghdad.
[Reuters] | A first cousin of the prime minister, the cousin's wife and another family
member were seized from their home in Baghdad on Tuesday morning, spokesman
Georges Sada said.
He gave no further details on the circumstances of their abduction, but a
police source said there had been a short gun battle at the home in a
southwestern district of the capital before the people were seized.
Sada said no demands had so far been made by the kidnappers.
"This is a close cousin -- Allawi's father and his father are brothers," Sada
told Reuters.
Hundreds of Iraqis have been kidnapped by criminal gangs in a wave of
abductions in recent months, with more wealthy individuals such as doctors and
businessmen most regularly targeted. Most are released after the payment of
ransom.
Over the same period, scores of foreigners have been seized, with many of
them handed over to Islamic militant groups who have threatened to kill them if
demands are not met. More than 35 foreign hostages have been killed, several by
beheading.
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