Guardians korrespondent i Bagdad, Rory Carroll (33), ble kidnappet igår kveld. Carroll er ingen novise i Irak. Han har vært i landet siden januar.

Carroll hadde vært og intervjuet et offer for Saddams styre, som skulle stått på trykk idag. Da han kom ut av huset, sto mennene og ventet.

The Guardian’s Iraq correspondent, Rory Carroll, was last night missing after being kidnapped by gunmen in Baghdad. Carroll, 33, an experienced foreign correspondent, had been conducting an interview in the city with a victim of Saddam Hussein’s regime. He had been preparing an article for today’s paper on the opening of the former dictator’s trial yesterday.
Carroll, who was accompanied by two drivers and a translator, was confronted by the gunmen as he left the house where he had been carrying out the interview. He and one of the drivers were bundled into cars. The driver was released about 20 minutes later.

Guardian journalist abducted in Baghdad