Gunmen kidnap Iraqi parliament speaker's nephew

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Media:AFP
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Date: 7 Sept 2006

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BAGHDAD, Sept 7, 2006 (AFP) - The nephew of Iraq's Sunni parliament speaker
Mahmud Mashhadani has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen, interior ministry
spokesman Brigadier General Abdul Karim Khalaf told AFP Thursday.

"Gunmen abducted Ahmed Mashhadani last night from the western Hurriyah
neighbourhood," Khalaf said, adding the reasons for his kidnapping were
unknown.

"We are still investigating whether it is a political, a terrorist or a
criminal act."

Iraq's dominant Shiites and the minority Kurds had recently demanded
Mashhadani's resignation after he strongly criticised the idea of breaking
up the country into rival federal regions.

The Kurds and the Shiites strongly advocate a federal rule in the north and
the south of Iraq.

Mashhadani had also demanded amnesty for those groups who took to arms to
fight the US forces after the toppling of Saddam Hussein.
 
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