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Two missing German security troopers feared dead in Iraq

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Berlin, April 11, IRNA -- Two missing German security troopers are 
believed to have been killed during an attack on their convoy near 
the Iraqi town of Fallujah, the media reported here Sunday. 
DPA quoted a German Foreign Ministry spokeswoman as saying that 
the two men, members of the elite GSG-9 security forces, are "in all 
likelihood dead". 
She added a "final confirmation" would only come after the men`s 
bodies had been properly identified. 
The two German security officials who were stationed at the 
German embassy in Baghdad, had gone missing since Wednesday while 
traveling from Amman, Jordan to the Iraqi capital. 
A number of foreigners, among them Japanese and other western 
citizens, have been kidnapped in Iraq in recent days after stepped 
up military clashes between US-led occupying forces and Iraqi 
resistance fighters. 
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