Germany Warns Citizens to Leave Iraq

BERLIN - The Foreign Ministry on Monday warned Germans to leave Iraq after two security officials were ambushed and presumed to be dead.

The ministry also warned against travel to Kuwait, where it said there is also a "high security risk."

Fighting has been heavy in Iraq for the past week, and several civilians have either been kidnapped or killed.

Aktion Deutschland Hilft, the umbrella organization for German humanitarian aid groups, said the six Germans who had been in Iraq working on projects pulled out over the weekend, with the final two reaching Amman, Jordan, on Monday.

Two security agents for the German Embassy in Baghdad have been missing for several days are most likely dead, the Foreign Ministry said Sunday.

The men, identified in media reports as Tobias R., 25, and Thomas H., 38, are both members of the elite GSG-9 unit of the German Federal Border Police. They were traveling from Amman to Baghdad Wednesday and were ambushed near Fallujah, according to the ministry.

Some 60 Germans are thought to be in Iraq, largely journalists or people married to Iraqis and living permanently in the country.

1 posted on 04/12/2004 8:20:55 AM PDT by knighthawk

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2 posted on 04/12/2004 8:21:29 AM PDT by knighthawk (Some people say that we'll get nowhere at all, let 'em tear down the world but we ain't gonna fall)

A little late, but better than never I guess. Though I suppose people there have figured it out by now.

3 posted on 04/12/2004 8:22:24 AM PDT by nuconvert ("America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins." ( President Bush 3-20-04))

well if they had any brains...they should be warning muslim-terrorists to leave Germany

4 posted on 04/12/2004 8:25:01 AM PDT by joesnuffy (Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)

There's your UN coalition, cutting and running at the slightest trouble. How could the UN accomplish anything when nations are unwilling to stand up to terrorism. There goes Kerry's friends, running to the hills.

5 posted on 04/12/2004 8:33:20 AM PDT by man of Yosemite ("When a man decides to do something everyday, that's about when he stops doing it.")

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