Sistani Aides Kidnapped - Ransom Demanded
Grand Ayatolla Ali al-Sistani’s followers in Basra. Kind of strange that it wasn’t an outright assassination.
Basra, Feb 4 - Unknown gunmen on Monday afternoon kidnapped two top Shiite cleric’s Ali al-Sistani’s representatives from central Basra, demanding a USD 100,000 ransom to release them, the chief of the Basra operations said.
“Unidentified gunmen kidnapped Sheikh Ali Hussein al-Khafagi, Imam of al-Muthafar mosque, and Sheikh Abdul Rahman al-Idressi, lecturer in Hawzat Imam al-Abbas in Basra, and took them to an unknown place,” Lieutenant General Mouhan Hafez told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI).
“They called their families, demanding a 100,000 ransom,” he added.
(VOI)
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