U.S. and Iraqi officials say kidnapped American journalist had been warned of threats
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Hours before she was kidnapped, Shelly Kittleson met a friend and said she had received a warning: U.S. officials had told her a militia group intended to target her.
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BAGHDAD — An American journalist was kidnapped on Tuesday in Baghdad and Iraqi security forces are pursuing her captors, Iraqi officials said. The journalist was identified as freelancer Shelly Kittle
An American journalist who frequently covered the Middle East has reportedly been kidnapped in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, with terrifying surveillance footage showing armed men bundling her into the back of a car.
BAGHDAD (AP) — An American journalist was kidnapped Tuesday in Baghdad and Iraqi security forces are pursuing her captors, Iraqi officials said.The journalist was identified as freelancer
American journalist Shelly Kittleson was kidnapped in Baghdad on Tuesday, according to two sources familiar with the matter as well as an Iraqi official.
Two Iraqi security officials said the journalist was abducted in central Baghdad, and that an alert was sent to all checkpoints, leading to the pursuit of the kidnappers as they headed toward Babil province.
Hours before she was kidnapped, Shelly Kittleson met a friend and said she had received a warning: U.S. officials had told her a militia group intended to target her.
BAGHDAD (AP) — An American journalist who was kidnapped in Baghdad had tried to cross from Syria into Iraq three weeks earlier and was initially turned back,
U.S. and Iraqi officials said Shelly Renee Kittleson had also been warned of threats against her in the days before her abduction. A freelance journalist who has worked for years in Iraq and Syria, Kittleson was kidnapped from a street in the Iraqi capital Tuesday and remains missing.
Shelly Kittleson, who often took on dangerous assignments before she was kidnapped in Iraq, was warned about looming risks but didn’t believe threats against her were credible.
