June 12, 2005
Insurgents in Iraq have kidnapped more than 200 foreigners:
HELD:
_Ali Musluoglu, 48, Turkish businessman. Kidnapped in Baghdad on May 19.
_Rami Daas, 26, a Palestinian student whose family said he was kidnapped May 9 by gunmen in the northern city of Mosul.
_Douglas Wood, a 63-year-old Australian engineer living in Alamo, Calif. The Shura Council of the Mujahedeen of Iraq claimed in a videotape released May 1 that it had abducted Wood.
_Jeffrey Ake, a 47-year-old contract worker from LaPorte, Ind. Abducted April 11 while working at a water treatment plant in the Baghdad area.
_Nabil Tawfiq Sulieman and Matwali Mohammed Qassem, Egyptian engineers for the firm Unitrak. Abducted on a road west of Baghdad according to a video that surfaced March 19 on an Islamic Web site.
_Ibrahim al-Maharmeh, a Jordanian businessman. Kidnapped in Baghdad on March 5.
_Joao Jose Vasconcellos, 55, an engineer from Brazil. Seized in an ambush Jan. 19 en route to Baghdad airport.
_Abdulkadir Tanrikulu, a Turkish businessman. Abducted by gunmen from the Bakhan Hotel in Baghdad on Jan. 13.
_Badri Ghazi Abu Hamzah, a Lebanese businessman. Abduction reported by Lebanese government. Lebanese media quoted his family as saying he was seized on the road to Tikrit Nov. 6, 2004.
_Sadeq Mohammed Sadeq, a Lebanese-American who formerly worked for SkyLink USA, a Virginia-based contractor. Kidnapped by gunmen around midnight Nov. 2, 2004, from his home in Baghdad's Mansour neighborhood.
_Roy Hallums, a 56-year-old American, and Robert Tarongoy of the Philippines. Kidnapped Nov. 1, 2004, from their office in the Mansour district after a gunbattle kills an Iraqi guard and an attacker. A Nepalese and three Iraqis also were abducted but later freed.
_Aban Elias, 41, Iraqi-American civil engineer from Denver. Seized May 3, 2004, by Islamic Rage Brigade.
FREED OR ESCAPED:
_Florence Aubenas, a journalist for the French daily Liberation. Disappeared Jan. 5 after leaving her Baghdad hotel. Released along with her Iraqi assistant Hussein Hanoun al-Saadi on June 11.
_Romanian journalists Marie Jeanne Ion, 32, Sorin Dumitru Miscoci, 30, and Ovidiu Ohanesian, 37, and Mohammed Monaf, an Iraqi American who worked as their translator. Kidnapped March 28 in Baghdad. Released on May 22.
_36 Turks, 19 Jordanians, 19 Lebanese, 13 Chinese, 13 Egyptians, six Italians, five Japanese, five Chinese, four Americans, four Indonesians, three Kenyans, three Czechs, three Indians, three Poles, three Frenchmen, two Pakistanis, two Canadians, two Russians, a Sri Lankan, a Bangladeshi, a Swede, a Filipino, a Syrian, a Sudanese, a Nepalese, an Australian, a Briton, an Iranian, a Somali, a Syrian-Canadian, and an Arab Christian from Jerusalem.
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