Two Italian Women Kidnapped by Holy Warriors
Gunmen Abduct Two Italian Aid Workers in Baghdad.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen abducted two Italian aid workers and two Iraqis in central Baghdad Tuesday in a brazen attack that will alarm foreigners who are already on edge from widespread kidnappings.
Witnesses told Reuters about 20 men with AK-47 assault rifles and pistols with silencers stopped their vehicles in a busy commercial area of Baghdad and raided a building housing humanitarian organization Bridge to Baghdad.
They left with Italian staffers Simona Pari and Simona Torretta and two Iraqis, a women who worked for another Italian organization Intersos and a male engineer who worked for Bridge to Baghdad. …
The Bridge to Baghdad Web site says the group is a volunteer association established in 1991 after the end of the first Iraq war, to promote humanitarian aid to Iraq and fight an economic embargo imposed on the country when Saddam Hussein was president.
