How they perpetrated this in the middle of the Green Zone is beyond me...

News: U.S. working with Iraq over disappearing minister

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The United States said on Tuesday it was cooperating with
Iraq to find out how a former Iraqi minister with dual U.S. citizenship was sprung from his Baghdad jail cell, reportedly by armed, plain-clothes Americans.

Ayham al-Samarraie, an electricity minister in the former government of Prime Minister Iyad al-Allawi, has not been seen since Sunday, when he walked out of the police station where he was being held, in the company of a group of armed men.

He had been detained at a police station on the outskirts of the Green Zone, the heavily fortified compound that houses the Iraqi government and the U.S. and British embassies, to await trial in up to 12 corruption cases, a judge said on Monday.

The commission says Samarraie was taken from the station by plain-clothes Americans and that the minister had previously employed a private American security firm to protect him.

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