Egyptian ambassador kidnapped
03/07/2005 10:34  - (SA)  

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Cairo - Egypt's first ambassador to post-Saddam Hussein Iraq has been kidnapped in Baghdad just weeks after arriving in the war-torn country, Egyptian diplomats said on Sunday.

Two diplomats, speaking in Cairo and Baghdad on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, said Ihab al-Sherif was kidnapped late on Saturday in the Iraqi capital.

Al-Sherif had arrived in Baghdad on June 1. In mid-June, the Egyptian government said it would upgrade relations with Iraq to full embassy status headed by an ambassador, but it was not immediately clear if al-Sherif currently held the full ambassador title.

The diplomats gave no immediate details on the kidnapping.

Egypt had withdrawn its ambassador in 1991 when it backed the US-led alliance against Saddam, after he invaded Kuwait.

- SAPA

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