3 Romanian Journalists in Iraq Abducted
Three Romanian journalists were kidnapped in Iraq on Monday, Romanian President Traian Basescu said.
“We have alerted all the secret services and the foreign intelligence services of our allies to solve the case,” Basescu told Romanian TVR1 television.
Two of the kidnapped journalists, Marijan Ion and Sorin Miscoci, work for Romania’s Prima TV, where an editor received a phone call from them saying they had been abducted, TVR1 said.
Also kidnapped was Ovidiu Ohannesian of Romania Libera newspaper, it said.
Romania has about 800 troops in Iraq.
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