British journalist kidnapped in Iraq

The British the Guardian daily said that its correspondent in Baghdad Rory Carroll was kidnapped on Wednesday in al-Sader city in Baghdad. Carroll who is 33 year old and of the Irish nationality was kidnapped while leaving his house from al-Sader city where he was following up the events of the trial of the former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein via TV with the company of one Iraqi family.

Chief editor of the international affairs department in the paper said that Carroll who had spent 9 months in Iraq, and was taken by means of force by armed members.