Intelligence: edit kidnapped three Americans in Baghdad

February 16, 2016 17:01


Iraqi National Intelligence Service announced the release of the three kidnapped Americans who were kidnapped in Baghdad last month.

A security source said that "the intelligence service was able to release the three American abductees who were kidnapped last month." He added that "these moments are being delivered kidnapped the US side."

A security source in the Iraqi police, said last month that "disguised as uniformed gunmen on wheels SUV seized in 17 of the month of January last three US citizens with their interpreter on a highway south of Baghdad session."

Another security source said the kidnappers were two of Iraqi origin, as reported, and the other Egyptian origin.

Revealed the Baghdad Operations Command, said the Americans were inside the suspicious flat "in the health district during an abduction.

He said US Secretary of State John Kerry, that the United States is working with the Iraqi authorities for the purpose of the release of the abductees, "he said." We have a good perception about what happened, "but he refused to give any details about the circumstances of what happened.

The Defense Minister Khaled al-Obeidi said that organized gang carried out kidnappings and extortion behind the abduction.

Obeidi said in an interview on the sidelines of his visit to Cairo last month, "follow us to the topic suggests that organized gang spotted them coming times to this place and this place, I think it is suspicious Vaguetateke from the region, bands can not identify the affiliation but are gangs working on kidnapping and extortion."



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