US contractor taken hostage in Baghdad

Gunmen have kidnapped a Lebanese-American contractor from his home in Baghdad.

Gunmen have kidnapped a Lebanese-American contractor from his home in Baghdad.

A police source said the man, seized from the western Mansour district of the capital at about midnight, is a contractor working in the Green Zone, where the US embassy and key Iraqi government offices are located.

Another American national was among three foreigners seized on Monday when gunmen with assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades stormed a Saudi company villa in Mansour.

The other foreigners seized in that raid are a Filipino and a Nepali.

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