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Irak - Phone workers seized -- threat to network
Six Egyptian engineers working for the mobile telephone company that provides service to central Iraq have been abducted in the past several days, and a company official warned that the phone network would shut down if its remaining foreign workers fled the country in fear, reports SFGate. "These engineers are the core of the company," said Shamel Hanafi, a senior manager for Iraqna and the company's top executive in Iraq. "This is a very serious issue. If the situation remains, the network will shut down. It will affect the resistance. It will affect everybody." "Many of the scores of kidnappings of foreigners this year have been aimed at thwarting Iraq's reconstruction. Iraqna, majority owned by Egypt's wealthy Sawaris family, is Iraq's first cellular phone company, established less than a year ago. Cell phones were banned by the Saddam Hussein regime, according to the Associated Press. |
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