- ABU GHRAIB, Iraq (Reuters)
-- Iraqi insurgents said they had seized four Italians and two Americans
on the western outskirts of Baghdad on Friday.
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- A Reuters journalist saw two captive foreigners, said
by the insurgents to be Italians, in a mosque in a village in the Abu Ghraib
district. One was wounded in the shoulder. Both were weeping.
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- U.S. soldiers in a tank in the area near the village
of al-Dhahab al-Abyad said they knew some Americans had been taken hostage,
but had no details.
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- "That's why we are sealing off the road," said
one soldier.
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- Insurgents told Reuters they had captured four Italians
traveling in a four-wheel-drive vehicle with weapons in it. They said they
had seized the Americans in a separate attack.
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- They took the journalist to a mosque, surrounded by about
40 fighters with rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles, where they
said all the hostages had been taken.
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- The two foreigners could be seen from a distance, but
the fighters did not allow them to be filmed.
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