Iraqi interpreter

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Iraqi interpreter working for US military taken hostage in rebel hotspot

(AFP)

9 July 2004

RAMADI, Iraq - An Iraqi interpreter working with US forces in Iraq has been taken hostage in the troubled town of Ramadi, west of Baghdad, a police officer said on Friday.

Omar Abdel Jabbar was forced into a car at gun point after armed men came to his house in the town, 100 kilometres (60 miles) west of Baghdad, at about 11 pm (1900 GMT) on Thursday, said the officer on condition of anonymity.

“I saw four masked men force him into their car, which was a clear blue Opel,” he said.

Numerous Iraqis working for the US military or the now dissolved occupation administration have been taken hostage in Iraq by those who regard them as collaborators.

On Thursday, police said that an Iraqi man who owns a laundry and a restaurant on a US military base in the northern city of Mosul was found with his hands cut off and an eye gouged out after being taken hostage.

Ramadi is part of the so-called Sunni Muslim triangle, a stronghold of anti-US insurgents aggrieved by the ouster of Saddam Hussein’s Sunni-dominated regime.

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