the Iraq situation continues to head to hell in a handbasket but is anyone paying attention in America?
Mar 29, 2005 — By Radu Marinas
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Three Romanian journalists kidnapped in Baghdad managed to send desperate messages to relatives and colleagues before disappearing on Monday, the latest foreigners to be abducted in Iraq.
"We're kidnapped. This is not a joke," one of the three, Prima TV reporters Marie Jeanne Ion, managed to message her mother from her mobile phone, Magdalena Ion told Realitatea TV.
Her cameraman Sorin Miscoci and journalist Ovidiu Ohanesian of the Romania Libera daily newspaper, all on a short reporting trip to Iraq, were also missing, authorities said.
Staunch U.S. supporter Romania set up a crisis center to handle the situation while President Traian Basescu said both local and foreign secret services had been alerted.
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