Oil worker kidnapping highlights Al-Qaida’s power
An oil worker in Anbar province was held hostage for weeks in an al-Qaida stronghold where security forces were afraid to venture. He was released for a $50,000 ransom.
Iraqi police officers of the Anbar 8th Battalion patrol in the Hurran Valley near the town of Haditha, 260 kms northwest of Baghdad on April 19, 2009. (ALI YUSSEF/AFP/Getty Images)
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