Free Republic

BAGHDAD (AP) Insurgents mounted attacks against Arab and Muslim diplomats in Iraq on Tuesday, wounding Bahrain’s top envoy in a kidnapping attempt. Pakistan’s ambassador also escaped an assault on his convoy. The attacks came three days after gunmen seized Egypt’s top envoy to Iraq as he was buying a newspaper in the capital, appearing to signal an insurgent campaign to discourage Islamic countries from bolstering ties with the U.S.-backed Iraqi government. Al-Qaida in Iraq purportedly claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of the Egyptian diplomat, Ihab el-Sharif. “We, the al-Qaida in Iraq organization, announce that the Egyptian ambassador has been kidnapped...