{"id":63901,"date":"2016-01-18T09:04:36","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T14:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63901"},"modified":"2016-01-18T10:37:43","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T15:37:43","slug":"three-american-kidnapped-in-baghdad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63901","title":{"rendered":"Three Americans kidnapped in Baghdad"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the Associated Press<\/a>, three Americans were kidnapped from a dinner with their interpreter. Iraqi government officials say that they were then taken to Sadr City.<\/p>\n

A local policeman in Dora said the individuals were taken from their car on Saturday along a highway in southwest Dora while driving to Baghdad International Airport. The two differing accounts of the events could not immediately be reconciled. The policeman spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to brief the press.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Embassy confirmed Sunday that “several” Americans have gone missing in Iraq, after local media reported that three Americans had been kidnapped in the Iraqi capital.<\/p>\n

U.S. Embassy spokesman Scott Bolz said, “We are working in full cooperation with Iraqi authorities to locate the missing Americans.”<\/p>\n

Bolz did not identify the missing Americans or say what they were doing in Iraq.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Iraqis are saying that they don’t know who captured the Americans;<\/p>\n

There were no immediate claims of responsibility. Kidnappings in Iraq have been carried out by the Islamic State group, Shiite militias and criminal gangs often demanding ransom payments or seeking to resolve workplace disputes.<\/p>\n

Following the IS takeover of Iraq’s second largest city Mosul and large swaths of territory in the country’s north and west, Iraq has witnessed a deterioration in security as government forces were sent to front lines and Shiite militias were empowered to aid in the fight following the collapse of the Iraqi military.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s the problem with only a small presence of Americans in Iraq – security of the troops depends largely on locals. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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