Jordan Times
Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Kidnapped Jordanian in Iraq released

AMMAN (Agencies) — A Jordanian driver and two Indonesian journalists kidnapped in Iraq last week arrived here yesterday after their captors released them.

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Rajab Sukayri said Abu Fadleh, reporter Meutya Hafid and cameraman Budiyanto — both working for the Indonesian cable network Metro TV — entered Jordan yesterday after being held up overnight at the border, which was closed.

The three were abducted on February 15 as they drove from Jordan to Baghdad.

Their kidnappers freed them Monday in Ramadi, a rebel hot spot west of the Iraqi capital in the so-called Sunni Triangle.


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