The Guardian newspaper said today one of its reporters has disappeared in Iraq and it believes he was kidnapped.

A Briton a two Americans were kidnapped in Baghdad today, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said.

AMERICAN forces regained control of the southern Iraqi city of Kut seized this week by a rebellious Shi’ite militia as radical Shi’ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, warned America they were now fighting an “entire Iraqi nation.”

Kidnappers seized 13 foreign hostages and threatened to burn three Japanese captives alive if Tokyo did not withdraw its troops from Iraq as fighting in Fallujah raged today between insurgents and US forces.