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Iran Accusatory Over Missing Official

(CBS/AP) Iran said Tuesday its former deputy defense minister has disappeared while on a private trip to neighboring Turkey, and Iran's top police chief accused Western intelligence services of possibly kidnapping the official.

Ali Reza Asghari, a retired general in the elite Revolutionary Guards and a former deputy defense minister, had arrived in Turkey on a private visit from Damascus, Syria, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported Tuesday.

Iran's top police chief, Gen. Esmaeil Ahmadi Moghaddam, said Iran was investigating the fate of Asghari through the Turkish police.

"It is likely that Asghari has been abducted by the Western intelligence services," IRNA quoted the Iranian police general as saying. The general did not elaborate.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/06/world/main2538371.shtml

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