Iraqi CBS interpreter freed in Basra - Democratic Underground

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Wed Feb-13-08 01:28 PM
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Iraqi CBS interpreter freed in Basra

Source: AP

BAGHDAD - An Iraqi interpreter for CBS News kidnapped in Basra was freed Wednesday, but a British journalist remained in captivity, police said.

Aqeel Khadhir was handed over to authorities at the same hotel where he was seized in Basra, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, Police Brig. Gen. Shamkhi Jassim said.

Journalists gathered at the hotel saw the Iraqi interpreter being escorted by police to their main headquarters.

The director of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's office in Basra said negotiations were continuing for the British journalist's release.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080213/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

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Wed Feb-13-08 01:38 PM
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1. rec for rare good news n/t

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