Foreigners seized as gunmen storm house in Baghdad

Gunmen stormed the compound of a Saudi company in a fashionable Baghdad neighbourhood, seizing an American, a Nepalese and four Iraqis after a gun battle in which a guard and one of the attackers were killed.

Elsewhere, gunmen murdered the deputy governor of Baghdad and to the west of the Iraqi capital, US troops clashed with Sunni fighters in Ramadi, killing an Iraqi freelance television camera operator.