Three kidnapped Egyptians released in Basra

A year, almost to the day, after the Egyptian Ambassador to Iraq, Ihab al Sherif was killed in Baghdad, three kidnapped Egyptians were released in Basra.

The three Egyptians worked for al Muqawilloun al Arab(Arab Contractors). They are now in Kuwait. In February 2005, four Egyptian engineers working for Orascom was kidnapped in West Baghdad, Orascom has a contract for the Iraqi mobile phone operator Iraq´inna

The Egyptian President opted to critizize the Shia communities as more loyal to Iran, than their home countries, this at a time when the unity goverment was still in the making, something the same kind of reasoning as King Abdullah of Jordan had displayed , when talking about a shi´te crescent earlier.

The other day, the allegded successor to Abu Musab az Zarqawi, was said to be in Torah prison outside of Cairo, according to a laywer who was said to have met him there, if this turns out to be true, one wonders how good the American intelligence on the ground in Iraq is... I´m sure time will tell.

This kidnapping above is of course nothing, compared to the daily assaults on the Iraqi people of all denominations, today, another¨normal day in Iraq - 16 dead

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