Iraqi Commandos Free Lebanese Hostage

[Barrett808]

Iraqi Commandos Free Lebanese Hostage
By Dean Yates

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi commandos freed a Lebanese hostage Sunday, a Lebanese Foreign Ministry source said, but there was no word on another Lebanese seized in a growing wave of kidnappings of foreigners in Iraq.

In a separate hostage standoff, a Kuwaiti company and a top Iraqi mediator dismissed reports that a group of seven foreign truck drivers -- three Indians, three Kenyans and an Egyptian -- had been freed.

"Iraqi commando forces carried out a military operation on the kidnappers of Vlad Damaa and released him half an hour ago," the source said in Beirut, declining to give any more details.

Damaa was seized at gunpoint Friday from a construction concern he runs with a brother that sells prefabricated buildings to U.S. forces in Iraq, his family said.

No comment was available from Iraq's interim government, which is building up its own forces but remains heavily reliant on some 160,000 mostly U.S. foreign troops for security.

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[underpants]

1. Good. Good for them

:thumbsup:

[commander bunnypants]

2. ditto and kudos for them

DDQM

[Barrett808]

3. Perhaps good news, but perhaps the death warrant for the other hostage

Or hostages.