Romanian Journalists Kidnapped in Iraq

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Romanian journalists kidnapped in Iraq

Dominic Timms
Tuesday March 29, 2005

Romanian President Traian Basescu today called on coalition forces in Iraq to help secure the release of three journalists who were kidnapped last night.

The missing journalists, reporter Marie Jeanne Ion and cameraman Sorin Dumitru Miscoci from Bucharest-based television station Prima TV and Ovidiu Ohanesian, who works for daily Romania Libera, were snatched by unknown abductors in Baghdad's al-Mansur district.

"We have alerted all the secret services and the foreign intelligence services of our allies to solve the case," Mr Basescu told the Romanian TVR1 television after the three journalist were snatched on Monday night.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1447396,00.html

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1. Were they reporting contrary to U S interest

How sad