Officials Name Top Suspects in Iraq Abductions of Americans
An Iraqi police commander and a Western security official in Baghdad have named two powerful Shi’ite militias as top suspects in the abduction of three Americans last weekend in a southern neighborhood of the Iraqi capital.
They say one of the two militias — Asaib Ahl al-Haq and Saraya al-Salam — were likely behind the attack.
The police commander says “nobody can do anything in that neighborhood without the approval of those militias.” The Western security official confirmed that intelligence assessments had narrowed down the suspects to those two groups.
Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to talk to reporters.
The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad has confirmed that several Americans are missing and that they are working with Iraqi authorities to locate them.
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