Al-Qaida abducts army officer
Al-Qaida in Iraq has said it has kidnapped an army colonel and his wife who is running in next month’s elections on the ticket of the ex-Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, according to an internet statement posted today.
The statement, which was posted on an extremist Islamist website, said Col Essam Khazail Marie Hassan and his wife, Majida Youssef Sayel, were abducted in Baghdad’s Doura neighbourhood yesterday.
