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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3998681.stm

 

Expect this story to become bigger news in the next couple of days

 

Relatives of Iraqi PM kidnapped 

 

The abductions may be revenge for Allawi's support of the Falluja attack

 

Three members of Iraqi PM Iyad Allawi's family have been abducted, an interim government spokesman says.

Mr Allawi's first cousin, the cousin's wife and their daughter-in-law were kidnapped from their Baghdad home on Tuesday, spokesman Georges Sada said.

 

They were seized in the south-western Qadisiyah district after a gun-battle, police told Reuters news agency.

 

An Islamic group has said it is holding the three, and threatened to kill them unless the assault on Falluja stops.

 

Death threats

 

The threat was issued in a posting on an Islamic website by a group calling itself Ansar al-Jihad.

 

The group also wants prisoners held by Iraqi and US forces freed. It says the hostages will be killed within 48 hours unless its demands are met.

 

The BBC's Caroline Hawley in Baghdad said the abduction of Mr Allawi's relatives seems to have been the closest insurgents could possibly have got to him.

 

The interim prime minister gets death threats every day and it is extremely difficult to get anywhere near him, such is his security, our correspondent says.

 

Criminal gangs are believed to be behind a wave of abductions of hundreds of Iraqi citizens in recent months.

 

Aid worker held

 

Most are released after a payment of ransom.

 

Foreigners have also been seized, with many handed over to Islamic militant groups.

 

Hassan was seized by an unknown group in Baghdad on 19 October

 

More than 30 foreign hostages have been killed, several by beheading, after kidnappers' demands were not met.

 

Among those currently held captive is aid worker Margaret Hassan, who has Irish, British and Iraqi nationality.

 

In a video released last week, her abductors threatened to hand her over to militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi unless British troops quit Iraq.

 

However, a later message posted on an Islamic website claiming to come from Zarqawi's group called for Mrs Hassan's release.

 

The Jordanian-born Zarqawi has admitted beheading several foreigners, including Briton Ken Bigley.

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Guest MikeSC
Well, we simply need to slaughter anybody walking on two feet in Fallujah.

    -=Mike

Technically monkies don't walk on two feet.

The monkeys there have that abnormal talent.

-=Mike

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Well, we simply need to slaughter anybody walking on two feet in Fallujah.

    -=Mike

Technically monkies don't walk on two feet.

 

STOP INSULTING MONKEYS!!

They can at LEAST be taught to clap and push buttons.

 

Monkeys deserve better than being compared to these slime.

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Well, we simply need to slaughter anybody walking on two feet in Fallujah.

     -=Mike

Technically monkies don't walk on two feet.

 

STOP INSULTING MONKEYS!!

They can at LEAST be taught to clap and push buttons.

 

Monkeys deserve better than being compared to these slime.

Sorry, you're right, my bad.

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Guest Banders Kennany

Something is wrong with that report. How it was written, the news seemed to be all over the place.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3998681.stm

 

Expect this story to become bigger news in the next couple of days

 

Relatives of Iraqi PM kidnapped 

 

The abductions may be revenge for Allawi's support of the Falluja attack

 

Three members of Iraqi PM Iyad Allawi's family have been abducted, an interim government spokesman says.

Mr Allawi's first cousin, the cousin's wife and their daughter-in-law were kidnapped from their Baghdad home on Tuesday, spokesman Georges Sada said.

 

They were seized in the south-western Qadisiyah district after a gun-battle, police told Reuters news agency.

 

An Islamic group has said it is holding the three, and threatened to kill them unless the assault on Falluja stops.

 

Death threats

 

The threat was issued in a posting on an Islamic website by a group calling itself Ansar al-Jihad.

 

The group also wants prisoners held by Iraqi and US forces freed. It says the hostages will be killed within 48 hours unless its demands are met.

 

The BBC's Caroline Hawley in Baghdad said the abduction of Mr Allawi's relatives seems to have been the closest insurgents could possibly have got to him.

 

The interim prime minister gets death threats every day and it is extremely difficult to get anywhere near him, such is his security, our correspondent says.

 

Criminal gangs are believed to be behind a wave of abductions of hundreds of Iraqi citizens in recent months.

 

Aid worker held

 

Most are released after a payment of ransom.

 

Foreigners have also been seized, with many handed over to Islamic militant groups.

 

Hassan was seized by an unknown group in Baghdad on 19 October

 

More than 30 foreign hostages have been killed, several by beheading, after kidnappers' demands were not met.

 

Among those currently held captive is aid worker Margaret Hassan, who has Irish, British and Iraqi nationality.

 

In a video released last week, her abductors threatened to hand her over to militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi unless British troops quit Iraq.

 

However, a later message posted on an Islamic website claiming to come from Zarqawi's group called for Mrs Hassan's release.

 

The Jordanian-born Zarqawi has admitted beheading several foreigners, including Briton Ken Bigley.

That reads worse than keelebasa's poem

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