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Iraq
Driver of Jordanian ambassador kidnapped in Baghdad
2005-12-21
Gunmen seized the driver of the Jordanian ambassador to Iraq in Baghdad Tuesday, the latest abduction of a foreigner to jolt the war-torn country, Jordanian and Iraqi sources said. The kidnapping prompted Jordan to announce that it was considering relocating its staff from the embassy, hit by a deadly car bomb two years ago.

The driver, a Jordanian living in Iraq for several years, was snatched in the southern district of Saydiyya, Iraqi police said. "Mahmoud Salman Saaidiyyat was kidnapped by gunmen traveling in two cars, a Honda and a Nissan pick-up, which police are now looking for," the source said. "The Jordanian government has started contacts to determine who is responsible for this abduction," an official said. Jordan has named a new ambassador to Iraq, but Ahmad Lawzi has not yet taken up his post in Baghdad where the embassy is currently being run by charge d'affaires, Suleiman Arabiyyat.
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