Shi’ite militia may have kidnapped Britons in Iraq
Iraq’s foreign minister said on Wednesday he suspected Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr’s Mehdi Army militia was behind the abduction of five Britons from a government building in Baghdad. U.S. and Iraqi troops raided Baghdad neighbourhoods overnight, including the Mehdi Army stronghold of Sadr City, in a hunt for the Britons, who were kidnapped in an audacious daylight raid by dozens of gunmen, police and residents said. Full Story