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No Word on Brits Snatched in Baghdad

The search for five British nationals kidnapped from inside the Iraqi Finance Ministry building in the Sadr City suburb of Baghdad on Tuesday is continuing, but has so far been unsuccessful. Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett termed the situation "quite unclear," according to the BBC. A prime suspect, the Mehdi Army – comprised of those loyal to radical Shi’a cleric Moqtada Sadr – says it is not involved. It is also unclear whether raids carried out by American and Iraqi forces in the area in which the kidnappings took place are in any way related.