Ambassador-designate Ihab al-Sharif was kidnapped late on 2 July on a Baghdad street.
A statement posted on the Internet and signed by the Al-Qaeda organization For Holy War In Iraq said that "mujahedeen" had kidnapped al-Sharif, who is under their control.
Earlier today, gunmen opened fire on a convoy carrying Pakistan's envoy to Iraq, Younis Khan, in the third attack on a senior diplomat in three days. Nobody was reported wounded.
Pakistan later said it would transfer Khan from Baghdad to the Jordanian capital Amman.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan today sharply condemned the attacks on foreign diplomats in Iraq.
(Reuters/AFP/AP/dpa)
See also:
Top Egyptian Diplomat Kidnapped In Iraq
For RFE/RL's full coverage of developments in Iraq, see "The New Iraq"
A statement posted on the Internet and signed by the Al-Qaeda organization For Holy War In Iraq said that "mujahedeen" had kidnapped al-Sharif, who is under their control.
Earlier today, gunmen opened fire on a convoy carrying Pakistan's envoy to Iraq, Younis Khan, in the third attack on a senior diplomat in three days. Nobody was reported wounded.
Pakistan later said it would transfer Khan from Baghdad to the Jordanian capital Amman.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan today sharply condemned the attacks on foreign diplomats in Iraq.
(Reuters/AFP/AP/dpa)
See also:
Top Egyptian Diplomat Kidnapped In Iraq
For RFE/RL's full coverage of developments in Iraq, see "The New Iraq"
