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Relatives of Iraqi PM kidnapped
Three members of Iraqi PM Iyad Allawi's family have been abducted, an interim government spokesman says.
Mr Allawi's first cousin, the cousin's wife and their daughter-in-law were kidnapped from their Baghdad home on Tuesday, spokesman Georges Sada said.
They were seized in the south-western Qadisiyah district after a gun-battle, police told Reuters news agency.
An Islamic group has said it is holding the three, and threatened to kill them unless the assault on Falluja stops.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3998681.stm
"If the agent government does not meet our demands within 48 hours we will behead them (the hostages)," the Ansar al-Jihad group said in a statement dated Wednesday and carried on a Muslim website.
Its authenticity could not be immediately verified.
A spokesman for the Iraqi interim government said on Wednesday that a first cousin of the prime minister, the cousin's wife and another family member were seized from their home in Baghdad on Tuesday morning.
"With the help of God in this holy month (Ramadan) a unit of Ansar al-Jihad kidnapped three relatives of head of the Iraqi agents, Allawi, may God burn him and slaughter him," the statement said.
It demanded the release of all Iraqi female and male prisoners and an end to the assault on the city of Falluja.
Allawi ordered the American-led assault on Falluja to crush anti-US resistance before Iraq tries to hold an election in late January.
Security disorder
Commenting on the situation, an Iraqi political analyst, Nizar al-Samarrai told Aljazeera.
"When such an incident reaches the house of the prime miniter, the highest political official in the country, this means there is a complete security disorder."
"The country cannot control the situation and protect officials and their families," said al-Samarrai.
The analyst believes that what is happening in many Iraqi cities, particularly Falluja, will kick-start a new round of violence in the country.
Al-Samarrai says the abductions have been carried out by those harmed by Allawi's decision to attack Falluja. They are holding him responsible for all the victims of the attack, he added.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C1D0B778-C2D3-439B-8F1D-41AB14A8856B.htm
BAGHDAD, Nov. 10 (Xinhuanet) -- A militant group kidnapping three family members of Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi threatened on Wednesday to kill them if Allawi doesn't order a withdrawal from the besieged Fallujah.
In a statement, the group known to be Ansar al-Jihad (Partisans of Holy War) claimed responsibility for the abduction and threatened to behead the three if Allawi fails to meet its demands in 48 hours.
"We demand the agent government liberate all the prisoners in Iraq, women and men, and lift the siege over Fallujah and stop the military action against the city," said the previously unknown group.
The authenticity of the statement, published on a website, could not be verified independently.
Earlier reports said that a first cousin of Allawi, the cousin's wife and his daughter-in-law were kidnapped on Tuesday evening from their house in Baghdad.
Three cars with at least six men inside pulled up to the house in Baghdad's southern district of Al-Kadisiya, from where they took Ghazi Allawi and his two family members, an official source was quoted as saying.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/10/content_2201052.htm
They were seized in the south-western Qadisiyah district after a gun-battle, police told Reuters news agency.
An Islamic group has said it is holding the three, and threatened to kill them unless the assault on Falluja stops.
Read More
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3998681.stm
"If the agent government does not meet our demands within 48 hours we will behead them (the hostages)," the Ansar al-Jihad group said in a statement dated Wednesday and carried on a Muslim website.
Its authenticity could not be immediately verified.
A spokesman for the Iraqi interim government said on Wednesday that a first cousin of the prime minister, the cousin's wife and another family member were seized from their home in Baghdad on Tuesday morning.
"With the help of God in this holy month (Ramadan) a unit of Ansar al-Jihad kidnapped three relatives of head of the Iraqi agents, Allawi, may God burn him and slaughter him," the statement said.
It demanded the release of all Iraqi female and male prisoners and an end to the assault on the city of Falluja.
Allawi ordered the American-led assault on Falluja to crush anti-US resistance before Iraq tries to hold an election in late January.
Security disorder
Commenting on the situation, an Iraqi political analyst, Nizar al-Samarrai told Aljazeera.
"When such an incident reaches the house of the prime miniter, the highest political official in the country, this means there is a complete security disorder."
"The country cannot control the situation and protect officials and their families," said al-Samarrai.
The analyst believes that what is happening in many Iraqi cities, particularly Falluja, will kick-start a new round of violence in the country.
Al-Samarrai says the abductions have been carried out by those harmed by Allawi's decision to attack Falluja. They are holding him responsible for all the victims of the attack, he added.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C1D0B778-C2D3-439B-8F1D-41AB14A8856B.htm
BAGHDAD, Nov. 10 (Xinhuanet) -- A militant group kidnapping three family members of Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi threatened on Wednesday to kill them if Allawi doesn't order a withdrawal from the besieged Fallujah.
In a statement, the group known to be Ansar al-Jihad (Partisans of Holy War) claimed responsibility for the abduction and threatened to behead the three if Allawi fails to meet its demands in 48 hours.
"We demand the agent government liberate all the prisoners in Iraq, women and men, and lift the siege over Fallujah and stop the military action against the city," said the previously unknown group.
The authenticity of the statement, published on a website, could not be verified independently.
Earlier reports said that a first cousin of Allawi, the cousin's wife and his daughter-in-law were kidnapped on Tuesday evening from their house in Baghdad.
Three cars with at least six men inside pulled up to the house in Baghdad's southern district of Al-Kadisiya, from where they took Ghazi Allawi and his two family members, an official source was quoted as saying.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/10/content_2201052.htm
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Two female relatives of Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi kidnapped last week in Baghdad have been released while the third, his cousin, is still being held hostage, Al-Jazeera television reported on Sunday.
The Qatar-based channel did not identify its sources or provide further detail.
Militants abducted Allawi's cousin, Ghazi (75), his wife and their pregnant daughter-in-law, from their house in the capital last on Tuesday.
The following day, a previously unknown Islamic group claimed responsibility and threatened to behead them within 48 hours unless Allawi halted a major offensive on the rebel enclave of Fallujah and released all prisoners held in Iraq.
Allawi said on Saturday he had no news of the fate of the trio.
http://iafrica.com/news/worldnews/390315.htm
The Qatar-based channel did not identify its sources or provide further detail.
Militants abducted Allawi's cousin, Ghazi (75), his wife and their pregnant daughter-in-law, from their house in the capital last on Tuesday.
The following day, a previously unknown Islamic group claimed responsibility and threatened to behead them within 48 hours unless Allawi halted a major offensive on the rebel enclave of Fallujah and released all prisoners held in Iraq.
Allawi said on Saturday he had no news of the fate of the trio.
http://iafrica.com/news/worldnews/390315.htm
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