Posted on 07/03/2005 5:03:52 AM PDT by voletti
Egypt's ambassador to Iraq has been kidnapped in Baghdad, according to a source in the Egyptian embassy there.
The source said Ihab al-Sherif was abducted near his home on Saturday.
The Egyptian Embassy was sealed off by security forces.
The ambassador had just arrived in Iraq in June and was the first to represent an Arab country in post-war Iraq.
Al-Sherif had not yet formally presented his credentials to Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.
Meanwhile, U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales arrived in Baghdad Sunday on a surprise visit, officials at the U.S. Embassy confirmed.
The officials said Gonzales would meet with staff members of the Department of Justice in Iraq and other U.S. officials.
On Saturday, a string of suicide bombing attacks across Iraq targeted Iraqi police, leaving more than 20 people dead and dozens wounded.
In the latest attack, two suicide bombers killed nine people, including five policemen, and wounded 36 others inside and outside a cafeteria frequented by Iraqi police around 10 p.m. in Hilla, south of Baghdad, police said.
One suicide bomber detonated inside the cafeteria, and another blew himself up outside, a police spokesman said.
Of the wounded, 20 were police officers. Four women and six children were also hurt, the police spokesman said.
The spokesman said the terrorists in the city were reacting to the police forces' fight against terrorism.
Earlier in the day, around 9:45 a.m., a suicide bomber with an explosive vest killed at least 12 people and wounded 22 others at a police recruiting center in western Baghdad, said an Iraqi police official and the U.S. military.
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Thanks for the reminder.
My apologies.
Ambassador killed by Islamofascits. Coming across the wires now.
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