Al-Jazeera television showed footage of two armed and masked men holding the officer, who was named as Osama Abd al-Jabbar. The group identified itself as the "Brigades for the Defense of Holy Sites."
In another development, the fiancee of a French-American journalist has appealed to his abductors in Iraq to free him.
The journalist, Micah Garen, was reported kidnapped in the southern city of Al-Nasiriyah.
His fiancee, Marie-Helene Carleton, was quoted by the media advocacy group Reporters Without Borders as saying Garen had been working on a film on war-threatened archaeological sites in Iraq.
(Reuters/AFP/AP)
For the latest news on Iraq, see RFE/RL's webpage on "The New Iraq".
In another development, the fiancee of a French-American journalist has appealed to his abductors in Iraq to free him.
The journalist, Micah Garen, was reported kidnapped in the southern city of Al-Nasiriyah.
His fiancee, Marie-Helene Carleton, was quoted by the media advocacy group Reporters Without Borders as saying Garen had been working on a film on war-threatened archaeological sites in Iraq.
(Reuters/AFP/AP)
For the latest news on Iraq, see RFE/RL's webpage on "The New Iraq".
