Party leader kidnapped

(Al-Ittihad) – Unknown armed elements have kidnapped a presidential candidate for the next era, Secretary General of Free Iraqi Society party Abdul Muhsen Shalash. A member of the party’s political office, Fadhil al-Khafaji, said ten armed elements kidnapped Shalash on Saturday. They took him to an unknown place after destroying the computers in side the party headquarters.

(Al-Ittihad is published daily by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan.)

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