U.S.-led special forces have freed three Italians and a Pole held hostage in Iraq and captured some of their abductors in a bloodless rescue mission.
...The freed Italians, Umberto Cupertino, Maurizio Agliana and Salvatore Stefio, worked for a U.S. security firm and were abducted on April 12. A colleague was killed by the kidnappers after Italy rejected demands to withdraw its troops from Iraq.
...The released Pole was Jerzy Kos, a manager with Polish construction company Jedynka who was seized last week.
A Turkish hostage was freed but another Turk abducted with him remained in captivity, the Turkish embassy in Baghdad said. No other details were immediately available.
Reuters article
...The freed Italians, Umberto Cupertino, Maurizio Agliana and Salvatore Stefio, worked for a U.S. security firm and were abducted on April 12. A colleague was killed by the kidnappers after Italy rejected demands to withdraw its troops from Iraq.
...The released Pole was Jerzy Kos, a manager with Polish construction company Jedynka who was seized last week.
A Turkish hostage was freed but another Turk abducted with him remained in captivity, the Turkish embassy in Baghdad said. No other details were immediately available.
Surely that Turkish hostage was a separate deal? Or was this a negotiated rescue mission? Or did the other abductors (implied by the "some" captured) manage to hold on to the one Turk? Sorry, no details.
