[Shadow_Group] US soldier kidnapped in Iraq

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1340911,00.html
 

-->World News 
November 02, 2004 

US soldier kidnapped in Iraq
By Times Online, and agencies in Samarra
An American soldier has been captured in the Iraqi city of Samarra, north of Baghdad, an Iraqi police spokesman said today. 
Lieutenant Colonel Mohammed Ahmed of Samarra police told reporters the soldier was seized on Monday night by gunmen in two Opel cars. He said United States troops were out in force in the streets of the Sunni Muslim city today.

NI_MPU('middle');American military officials could not immediately be reached for comment on what is believed to be the first abduction of a United States soldier in Iraq since April, when two soldiers disappeared after an attack on a fuel convoy.

The abduction follows the kidnapping of an American civilian in Baghdad yesterday. The American, so far unnamed, was taken along with a Nepalese, a Filipino and an Iraqi from the compound of a Saudi Arabian company in the Mansour district, where British hostage Ken Bigley was captured last month.


A military policewoman who became the first British female soldier to die in Iraq since last year’s US-led invasion is thought to have killed herself. 


Sergeant Denise Rose, 34, died from a gunshot wound at an army base at the Shatt al-Arab Hotel in the Basra area in southern Iraq on Sunday, the Ministry of Defence said in a statement.

"The incident is being investigated but is not thought to have been the result of hostile action," it said.

Rose went to Iraq on September 27 as part of a small team of specialist investigators. Her commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Robert Silk, described her death as a "tragic loss".

"This is a terrible shock for all her many comrades in the unit," he said in a statement. "She was doing so well in the Army, and had a bright future in front of her."

 



 What Bush says...."I'm the commander - see, I don't need to explain - I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation."
(Aug 20, 2002 - interview by Bob Woodward, Crawford, TX)















			
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