Iraqi TV journalist kidnapped - press group

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Iraqi TV journalist kidnapped - press group
16 Nov 2007 20:30:52 GMT

BAGHDAD, Nov 16 (Reuters) - An Iraqi television
journalist was kidnapped on Friday after leaving his
home in Baghdad, Iraq's Journalistic Freedoms
Observatory said.

Muntazer al-Zaidi, a correspondent for al-Baghdadiya
television station, disappeared after leaving his home
in a busy area of central Baghdad, the non-
governmental organisation said in a statement.

Zaidi's family said they had called his mobile phone
in the afternoon, and confirmed he had been abducted,
the group said. But his family did not receive any
specific demands for his release. Zaidi is 26-years-old,
it added.

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Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/RYA672388.htm

[UpInArms]

1. I don't think I can stand any more signs of progress

:(

[ohio2007]

2. Somebody is in need of cash.

Raise a little cash with a ransome offer.I'm sure his TV station is running life stories of him and the stories he was currently going after. Maybe the public will pony up cash,
maybe pony up info leading to his where abouts and release ?

[Eugene]

3. Reuters: Kidnapped Iraqi reporter freed, says no ransom paid

Source: Reuters

Kidnapped Iraqi reporter freed, says no ransom paid
19 Nov 2007 13:33:27 GMT
Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD, Nov 19 (Reuters) - An Iraqi TV journalist
who was kidnapped last week in a busy Baghdad
neighbourhood said he was released unharmed before
dawn on Monday.

Muntazer al-Zaidi, a correspondent for the independent
al-Baghdadiya television station, said he spent more
than two days blindfolded, barely eating and drinking,
after armed men forced him into a car as he walked to
work on Friday morning in the bustling Bab al-Sharji
area of central Baghdad.

"My release is a miracle. I couldn't believe I was still
alive," Zaidi, 28, told Reuters by telephone.

-snip-

He never learned the identity of the kidnappers, who
questioned him closely about his work but did not
demand a ransom.

-snip-

Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L19159708.htm

[ohio2007]

4. That is the standard line; "No ransome was paid".

ie;
As was the case with that Italian female journalist