Insomnia ([info]insomnia) wrote,
@ 2005-03-08 05:03:00
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Bech-toll.
The Saudi press agency reports that five employees of the U.S. construction company Bechtel were kidnapped Tuesday on the highway near Tuz, 230 kilometers north of Baghdad.

Police said gunmen intercepted a vehicle belonging to Bechtel and abducted all five occupants. The nationalities of the passengers were not immediately known.

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[info]giantlaser
2005-03-09 05:49 am UTC (link)
The name of that town is "Dooz Khormatu", as it is transliterated. It is a mixed village of Kurds and Arabs. There is a nice little stop where you can get tea, candy, lunch, and a car wash that I used to stop at. They stopped letting me get out of the car in Dooz about six months ago.

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[info]insomnia
2005-03-09 06:36 am UTC (link)
Sad to hear about that. I was wondering what was up, as it seemed that the employees of Bechtel were kidnapped awfully far north of where foriegners usually are. Is Dooz officially in Kurdish territory? Who runs that area, anyway?

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[info]giantlaser
2005-03-09 06:41 am UTC (link)
No, Kurdish territory begins around Kirkuk, which is another hour's drive north of Dooz. Technically the ING guard Kirkuk to the south, but they speak Kurdish. The first peshmerga checkpoint is between Kirkuk and Arbil. It's a good feeling to see them, I assure you.

The borders of Kurdistan and Arab Iraq are fuzzy, with people of both races on both sides of historical lines.

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