2 Mazedonier wurden im Irak (Basra) entführt

[lupo-de-mare]

Beide Männer waren für eine Reinigungs Firma in Basra tätig, welche Ecolog heisst.

Macedonians kidnapped in Iraq

Saturday, February 18, 2006; Posted: 6:11 a.m. EST (11:11 GMT)


BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- The British military confirmed Saturday that two foreigners abducted in southern Iraq are Macedonians working for a cleaning company in Basra. A ransom has been demanded for their release.

Maj. Peter Cripps said the two men were abducted Thursday morning in Basra, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, while driving with Macedonian woman who worked for the same company called Ecolog.

"They were in a vehicle traveling between two locations and during that route they were somehow abducted," Cripps told The Associated Press.

The kidnappers took the two men and left the woman on the side of the road, where she was picked up by a British patrol, Cripps said.

"This is being treated as a criminal case and the Iraqi Police Services are leading the investigation," he said.

An Iraqi employee at the company, who declined to be identified as he was unauthorized to speak to the media, said the kidnappers had contacted the firm's management and demanded $1 million (840,000 euros) ransom.

The employee identified the hostages as Macedonian Muslims of Albanian ethnic origin and worked for the company that has a cleaning contract at the British-controlled Basra International Airport. The Macedonian company's headquarters in neighboring Kuwait.

More than 250 foreigners have been kidnapped in Iraq, including American reporter Jill Carroll who was abducted January 7 in Baghdad, and at least 39 have been killed.

Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

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[Bizza]

das sieht man wieder dass die vermumten Idioten keine Skrupel kennen!! Spielt keine Rolle ob es Moslems oder Christen sind, ob es humanitäre Helfer oder Soldaten sind, hauptsache sie lenken die Presse/Öffentlichkeit wieder mal an sich! Anstatt aktiv zu helfen den Staat aufzubauen wollen sie lieber ihre liebste Freizeitbeschäftigung ausüben "mit waffen rumballern und jedem zeigen wer hier der Boss is" naja wer am meisten darunter leidet ist die irakische Bevölkerung!

[Valon]

Die 2 "Makedonier" waren Ilira-Albaner.
Und wurden auch glaube ich nach 1 oder 2 Tage
wieder frei gelassen.

[lupo-de-mare]

Die 2 "Makedonier" waren Ilira-Albaner.
Und wurden auch glaube ich nach 1 oder 2 Tage
wieder frei gelassen.

Die sind schon wieder frei und zurück in Mazedonien.