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| Hostage freed, 2 IEDs defused in Baghdad |
| 2010-05-24 |
| BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: A federal police force freed a man taken hostage and captured one of his kidnappers and defused two improvised explosive devices in Baghdad and detained two wanted persons in Diala and Diwaniya provinces, according to an interior ministry release on Sunday. “A police force, acting on intelligence tip-offs, liberated a 20-year-old hostage and arrested one of his kidnappers in New Baghdad in cooperation with the police patrols in the area,' read the release as received by Aswat al-Iraq news agency. “The bomb squad managed to defuse two IEDs near an outdoor souk (market) in the area of al-Baijiya, al-Mansour neighborhood, western Baghdad,' it added. |
| Posted by:Steve White |