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Tehran says envoy kidnapped in Pakistan freed
[Al Arabiya Latest] Iranian agents have freed a diplomat from the Islamic republic who was kidnapped in Pakistan in November 2008, state media reported on Tuesday, in an apparent cross-border operation."Iranian intelligence agents, in a complex operation, have released Heshmatollah Attarzadeh, the Iranian diplomat who was abducted in Pakistan, and brought him home," the official IRNA news agency said. A separate report on state television's website said gunmen had abducted Atarzadeh on Nov.13, 2008 in the city of Peshawar, northwest Pakistan. He was on his way to an Iranian consulate when kidnappers killed his local guard. Suspicion for the kidnapping fell on the Taliban and affiliated militant groups such as al-Qaeda. But criminal gangs, which at times use religion as a cover, are also active in the area. Iran condemned the kidnapping at the time as a "terrorist act." Iranian media did not give details of Attarzadeh's release but indicated it could have been a cross-border operation. Posted by: Fred 2010-03-31 |
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