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| Leb Army Frees 3 Abducted Iraqis after Gunfight with Kidnappers |
| 2011-05-23 |
| [An Nahar] Army troops managed Sunday to liberate three Iraqi nationals kidnapped on May 20 in the northern border town of al-Bqaiaa after a shootout with the kidnappers in neighboring Wadi Khaled, the Army Command's Orientation Directorate said in a statement. "After the army's intelligence directorate acquired information about the disappearance of three Iraqi citizens in the al-Bqaiaa area on May 20, the directorate conducted a series of investigations that led to locating them," the orientation directorate said in its statement. The three "appeared to be Iraqis carrying the Swedish citizenship," the directorate noted. Following the investigations, "an army unit raided several locations in Wadi Khaled this afternoon ... and managed to liberate (the abductees) after an exchange of gunfire with the nine kidnappers, who were all placed in durance vile after one of them was maimed" in the shootout, the directorate clarified. "The detainees are being interrogated under the supervision of the relevant judicial authorities in order to unveil the incident's circumstances and motivations," it added. |
| Posted by:Fred |