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| Qaida Suspected as Iranian Diplomat Seized in Yemen |
| 2013-07-22 |
| [An Nahar] Gunmen suspected of being members of al-Qaeda kidnapped an Iranian diplomat in broad daylight on Sunday in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, police said. "An Iranian diplomat was kidnapped on Sunday in Sanaa by gunnies," a Yemeni security source told Agence La Belle France Presse, adding that the envoy was "taken to an unknown destination." Police said a search was under way to try to locate the man who was snatched in the street near the embassy in the southern Hadda district of the city. In Tehran, foreign ministry front man Abbas Araqchi told the ISNA news agency that "one of the administrative staff members of the Iranian Embassy ...You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy!... in Yemen has been kidnapped by an unknown group." "This person is Iranian," Araqchi confirmed, naming him as Nour-Ahmad Nikbakht. Iranian media said Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi had telephoned his Yemeni counterpart Abu Bakr al-Kurbi to say Tehran "condemned this inhumane act and urged the Yemen government to take serious action to release the diplomat". The reports also said that Sanaa's charge d'affaires was summoned to the foreign ministry in Tehran to hear "serious concerns regarding the fate of its diplomat". It was the first time an Iranian is known to be the victim of a kidnapping in the impoverished Arabian Peninsula country. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Aren't there still a few 'Quaida' folks safely ensconced in Iran? |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2013-07-22 21:09 |
| #1 administrative staff member = Quds Honcho? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2013-07-22 09:30 |