[Excerpt: Sadikoglu is head of Dubai-based International Marine Contractors which last year won a 92 million UAE dirham contract to remove 19 sunken ships from Umm Qasr....Turkish television said Sadikoglu, one of Turkey's richest businessmen, was preparing to bid in a new $90 million U.N. tender for retrieving more sunken ships.] _http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=FSPNAEVNRVLJACRBAE0CFEY ?type=worldNews&storyID=643789_ (http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=FSPNAEVNRVLJACRBAE0CFEY?type=worldNews&storyID=643789) Turk shipping magnate kidnapped in Iraq Sat Dec 25, 2004 11:55 AM GMT
ANKARA (Reuters) - Kidnappers have abducted a Turkish shipping magnate and three others in southern Iraq and demanded a $25 million (13 million pounds) ransom, the Turkish private NTV television channel says. It said on Saturday Kahraman Sadikoglu had been seized in the southern Iraqi port of Umm Qasr alongside a boat captain and a driver, both Turks, and an unnamed bodyguard. A video of Sadikoglu carried by Turkey's Ihlas news agency showed him being questioned by unseen kidnappers. Sadikoglu's family had contacted the Turkish Foreign Ministry saying they had not heard from him in 10 days and that kidnappers had demanded a ransom of $25 million. Sadikoglu is head of Dubai-based International Marine Contractors which last year won a 92 million UAE dirham contract to remove 19 sunken ships from Umm Qasr. Turkish television said Sadikoglu, one of Turkey's richest businessmen, was preparing to bid in a new $90 million U.N. tender for retrieving more sunken ships. The channel quoted the Foreign Ministry as saying the group had been abducted as they travelled from Iran to Iraq and that U.S. authorities had been alerted and British forces in the area had set up roadblocks around Umm Qasr. � Reuters 2004. All Rights Reserved. enditem [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
