CBS News Iraqi interpreter freed in Basra
BAGHDAD (AP) - February 13, 2008 Police Brig. Gen. Shamkhi Jassim said the interpreter had been
handed over to authorities at the same hotel where he was seized in
Basra, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad.
But the British journalist who was kidnapped with him remained
in captivity. The director of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada
al-Sadr's office in Basra said negotiations were continuing for his
release.
Journalists gathered at the hotel saw the Iraqi interpreter
being escorted by police to their main headquarters.
CBS News said Monday that two journalists working for it were
missing in Basra, but it did not identify them.
