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"...in broad daylight in central Baghdad
very close to the heavily-guarded Green Zone..."

Observers say the group of 20 armed men who carried out the operation wore Iraqi National Guard uniforms and said they were working for interim Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi.

Four aid workers and three Egyptians have been released by captors in Iraq.
Charity workers Simona Pari and Simona Torretta, both aged 29, had been missing for almost three weeks.
The two women were handed to the Italian charge d'affaires in Baghdad, reported Aljazeera.
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Sheikh Abdul Salam al-Kubaisi, a well respected Sunni cleric who has previously brokered the release of foreign hostages, had told reporters in Baghdad the Italian aid workers had visited him and told him they were being threatened.
"They were scared", he said. "They told me that someone threatened them." When asked who was behind the threats, al-Kubaisi said: "We suspect some foreign intelligence".

Aljazeera 29.Sep.04