Ransom Demanded for Kidnapped Soldier
03 November, 2006
BAGHDAD, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- A kidnapping ring reportedly has demanded a $250,000 ransom from the family of the U.S. soldier abducted in Iraq.
Time magazine said, however, the comparatively low sum requested is feeding family worries that Specialist Ahmed al-Taie, a Michigan National Guardsman from Ann Arbor, might be dead.
Al-Tate, a 41-year-old Iraqi-American, was grabbed by a gang claiming to be from the Mahdi Army while he was on an unauthorized trip to visit his wife in Baghdad.
The Pentagon confirmed for the first time that the soldier has been "unaccounted for" since Oct. 23.
The ransom demand for al-Taie was relayed to the soldier's uncle, Entifad Qanbar, who was involved in the negotiations. Qanbar is a former spokesman for the Iraqi National Congress and an official in the Iraqi Ministry of Defense.
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