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Shiite group claims kidnapping of US contractor in Iraq

BAGHDAD (AFP) - – A Shiite Islamist group on Saturday said it has kidnapped an American military contractor in Iraq and warned of attacks, hours after an Internet video showed the captive man wearing US military uniform.

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