Egyptian engineer kidnapped in Iraq

A source in the Iraqi ministry of interior said that one engineer of the Egyptian nationality working in "Iraquba" telecommunications company was kidnapped at the hands of unidentified gunmen in al-Hamra quarters west of Baghdad.

On the other hand, al-Jihad al-Qaida organization in Iraq, led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, claimed the suicide attack in the central of Baghdad on Sunday which resulted in killing 13 Iraqi police members, according to the organization in a statement issued on the Internet.

Earlier, the Iraqi police said that one suicide bomber targeted by a booby trapped car a police vehicle while running on the highway to the east of Baghdad. It said that also ten of its soldiers were injured in the attack.