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| Iraq |
| Portuguese Journalist Released in Iraq |
| 2003-11-15 |
| Newsday EFL LISBON, Portugal -- A Portuguese journalist abducted by gunmen in southern Iraq was released Saturday, news reports said. Carlos Raleiras, a journalist with Lisbon-based radio TSF, said he was set free at a roadside about 36 hours after being abducted near Basra. Raleiras told TSF he was not harmed. He did not say whether a ransom was paid. Raleiras had been traveling in a convoy with other Portuguese journalists from the Kuwait border to Basra to report on Portuguese police officers who have been deployed to aid British forces when they came under attack. Unidentified gunmen opened fire on the jeeps, wounding one Portuguese television journalist. Raleiras went missing during the attack and later said he was captured when a journalist for Portugal’s state news agency Lusa contacted him on his satellite telephone. Television journalist Maria Joao Rueala, who sustained a bullet wound in the leg, was treated in a British military hospital in southern Iraq. She was expected to be airlifted to Lisbon Saturday. I would thin kink that area that he was grabbed by an organized crime group invovled in oil smuggling. I’m sure that AQ or the Baathists would have blown his brains out. |
| Posted by:Super Hose |