Foreign Ministry works to free hostage in Iraq
12th Sep 2005, 21:35 GMT
The Lebanese Foreign Ministry said yesterday that it was doing everything possible to free the kidnapped Lebanese citizen in Iraq who is being held by a previously unheard of group called " Propagation of Virtue and Prohibition of Vice." The name of the group comes from a line in the Koran, the Islamic holy book.
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