Archbishop seized in Iraq
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=601957
By Robert Reid in Baghdad
18 January 2005
Gunmen in Iraq kidnapped a Catholic archbishop and targeted security
forces in a series of brazen attacks yesterday, killing more than 20
people. US Marines suffered undisclosed casualties in a car bombing in
Ramadi, where two Shia Muslims were beheaded and their bodies left on
the roadside.
In Mosul, Archbishop Basile Georges Casmoussa, 66, of the Syrian
Catholic Church, was seized outside his church. No-one claimed
responsibility and the Vatican condemned the abduction as a "terrorist
act". Christians make up 3 per cent of Iraq's 26 million population.
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