Incident Date:
April 08, 2004
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Abu Ghurayb Iraq
Perpetrators:
Event Type: Hostage Taking (Kidnapping)
Weapon Type(s): Unknown
Organization Type:
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Private Citizens & Property(Named civilians)
Canadian Target: Yes
Canadian Victim:
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims:
Perpetrators:
Description: "04/08/2004: Canadian officials said another of its citizens had been kidnapped in Iraq and advised remaining Canadians to leave the country. A senior foreign ministry official said Mohammed Rifat, 41, who disappeared on 04/08/2004, was alive and being held by an unknown group. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) television quoted family members as saying Iraqi-born Rifat had been carrying out contract repair work at a prison in Abu Ghraib."
References: 1) Janes DB
2) ITERATE
3) WITS
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