Two Chinese Engineers Kidnapped in Pakistan

(Islamabad, Pakistan) Two Chinese engineers and two Pakistani security personnel have been kidnapped by al-Qaeda-linked terrorists near the Afghan border. The terrorists have demanded the release of all al-Qaeda detainees or they vowed to kill Wang Ende and Wang Teng, who worked for China's state-run Sino Hydro Corporation.

The engineers were kidnapped yesterday morning as they travelled [sic] from the western town of Dera Ismail Khan to the Gomalzam dam project in South Waziristan, the remotest and most dangerous of Pakistan's north-west tribal districts.

Hundreds of al-Qaeda militants have taken refuge and set up training camps in South Waziristan, and have been battling thousands of Pakistani army troops trying to flush them out.

Meanwhile in Baghdad, it's being reported that four people were killed and two wounded today in an early morning rocket or mortar attack near the oil ministry.

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