Four hostages freed after Baghdad raid

Members of a Shiite Muslim militia raided a house in Baghdad and freed four hostages including Syrian and Lebanese citizens, an official in radical cleric’s Muqtada al-Sadr office said today.

The freed hostages identified themselves as Syrian Hisham Salem, Lebanese Mustafa Abdul-Rassoul Hussein, and dual Syrian-Lebanese citizen Atta Ibrahim. The fourth was an Iraqi Kurd who identified himself as Haji Alawi.