Iraqi gunmen kidnapped two Americans and a Briton from a house in a Baghdad neighborhood at dawn Thursday.
Ten assailants in a minivan pulled up a tree-lined street in the al-Mansour district and nabbed the three from their two-story house, said Col. Adnan Abdul-Rahman, an Interior Ministry official.
According to The AP, the American Embassy identified the Americans as Jack Hensley and Eugene Armstrong. All three were employed by Gulf Services Company, a Middle East-based construction firm, Abdul-Ramen said.
U.S. troops fanned out across the neighborhood to investigate the case.
No shots were fired in Thursday's incident and there was no sign afterward of a struggle, witnesses and Abdul-Rahman said.
A witness said he saw a man dressed in black, his face covered with a red scarf, dragging one of the hostages by the collar and pushing him into a car parked outside the house. (albawaba.com)
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