Two Poles abducted near Baghdad, Polish army says

[Judi Lynn]

Two Poles abducted near Baghdad, Polish army says
By Associated Press, 6/1/2004 14:48


WARSAW, Poland (AP) Two Polish construction workers were abducted Tuesday near Baghdad, a Polish army spokesman said.

The two men were taken from their apartment northwest of the city at about 6 p.m. and forced into a car. One of the men escaped and reached coalition forces, Lt. Col. Robert Strzelecki, the spokesman for the Polish-led multinational division in Iraq, said in a telephone interview from Camp Babylon in Iraq.

''The man is in good condition, he suffered no injuries and he has gotten in touch with his family,'' he said.

A search is now under way for the second man, Strzelecki said. He was not identified.
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http://www.boston.com/dailynews/153/world/Two_Poles_abducted_near_Baghda:.shtml

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1. Two Polish contractors and five aides

Two Polish contractors and five aides were today abducted near Baghdad, before one of the Poles escaped, a spokesman for their company said.

They were abducted from their office northwest of the city at about noon by people who drove up in two Jeeps, Andrzej Polaczkiewicz, a spokesman for the Jedynka construction company told Polish television.

He said the other abductees were three Kurdish security guards and two locally-hired female technical employees.
Polaczkewicz said the kidnappers burst into the office and rifled through it.“It looked like it was well-prepared,” he told N24.
Poland commands some 6,200 troops from 17 nations in south-central Iraq and contributes some 2,400 troops of its own.

The workers were abducted in an area under American command

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[xchrom]

2. so how worried are we going to have to

be about these folk?

[0rganism]

3. I suppose we could call this a "bi-Polar disorder"

yuk yuk yuk

Sorry, couldn't resist