Shiite militias suspected of kidnapping Kurdish for cash
Arkan Suleiman, 32, was just doing his job, driving his delivery truck between Iraqi Kurdistan in Iraq's north and Najaf, in the south, when he was kidnapped. He had been travelling in a convoy of several trucks but lost track of his fellow drivers when, on Sept. 4, he was forced to stop at a […]Dashty Ali reports for Niqash:
Arkan Suleiman, 32, was just doing his job, driving his delivery truck between Iraqi Kurdistan in Iraq's north and Najaf, in the south, when he was kidnapped. He had been travelling in a convoy of several trucks but lost track of his fellow drivers when, on Sept. 4, he was forced to stop at a checkpoint in the Muqdadiya area of the Diyala provinc
“Five armed men wearing military uniforms, driving a Ford car, had set up a checkpoint on the road in Muqdadiya,” Suleiman told NIQASH. “They stopped the truck and they kidnapped me. The armed men were carrying the flags that usually belong to the Shiite Muslim volunteer militias. They took me from the road to an orchard and then they put me in a civilian car and drove me to a family house.” Suleiman says he knows that the road south is dangerous and he is usually scared to drive it alone, hence the convoy. But, he says, he also has to provide for his family.
