AFP: Iraq police deny Western hostages killed or freed

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Iraq police deny Western hostages killed or freed
(AFP)

18 November 2006


BASRA, Iraq - All five Westerners kidnapped two days ago in southern Iraq
are ‘still held captive’ with none of the hostages found dead or rescued
as reported earlier, a top Iraqi police official said on Saturday.

‘We have not rescued anybody and nobody has been found killed as reported
yesterday. All the five are still missing and held captive,’ Ali Al Mussawi,
chief of operations at the police headquarters of Basra, the southern Iraqi
city, told AFP.

On Friday a Basra provincial official said that two American hostages had
been rescued in a police raid and that one was found dead.

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