Democratic Underground - new link: Iraqi PM's Cousin Kidnapped, Islamists Threaten

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Wed Nov-10-04 07:50 AM
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49. new link: Iraqi PM's Cousin Kidnapped, Islamists Threaten

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen have abducted three relatives of Iraq (news - web sites)'s prime minister from outside their Baghdad home, the interim Iraqi government said on Wednesday.

A hitherto unknown Islamist group threatened to kill them in 48 hours unless premier Iyad Allawi calls off the U.S.-led assault on the rebel-held city of Falluja and frees prisoners.

But the government said it would not be influenced.

The prime minister's 75-year-old first cousin Ghazi Allawi was seized with his wife and son as they were leaving their home in southwestern Baghdad on Tuesday evening, it said.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=586&ncid=586&e=1&u=/nm/20041110/wl_nm/iraq_allawi_dc

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