Admittidly it’s only his cousin, his cousin’s wife and someone else but it’ll be on the front pages of a lot of newspapers tomorrow.
Just when everything was going so well, too.
FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. Marines backed by air strikes battled through a rebel stronghold in Falluja on Wednesday, as officials said kidnappers had seized three relatives of Iraq’s interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi.
Gunmen had kidnapped a first cousin of Allawi, the cousin’s wife and another relative from their Baghdad home on Tuesday morning, but had made no demands, a government spokesman said.
Allawi ordered the U.S.-led assault on Falluja unleashed on Monday night by U.S. and Iraqi troops aimed at ridding the city of Baathist rebels and foreign fighters said to be based there. (excert from 3 page article)