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1st LD: 3 Americans kidnapped in Baghdad freed by Iraqi intelligence: TV

Xinhua, February 16, 2016 Adjust font size:

Three American contractors kidnapped earlier in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad were freed on Tuesday by the Iraqi intelligence service, an Iraqi official television reported.

"The Iraqi intelligence service managed to free the three American nationals who were kidnapped in Baghdad last month," the state-run Iraqiya channel said.

"At these moments, the kidnapped are being handed over to the American side," the channel said without giving further details about how the kidnapped were freed.

On Jan. 17, gunmen wearing military uniforms kidnapped the three Americans from a brothel apartment in Doura district in southern Baghdad and fled the scene in their four-wheel drive vehicles.

Meanwhile, U.S. media reports said that the three missing were Iraqis who had acquired U.S. citizenship and were kidnapped from an apartment well-known in southern Baghdad as a brothel and is subject to frequent raids by Shiite militias, including the Iran-backed Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq. Endit