WORLD / Middle East
Report: Missing US soldier married Iraqi
(China Daily)
Updated: 2006-10-31 06:50
NEW YORK: A US Army translator missing after being kidnapped in Iraq had
broken military rules to marry an Iraqi woman and was visiting her when
he was abducted, according to people who claim to be relatives of the
wife.
According to a report in Monday's editions of The New York Times, the
relatives said that the soldier, previously unidentified by the US
Government, is Ahmed Qusai al-Taei, a 41-year-old Iraqi-American. The
family did not know he was a soldier until after the kidnapping, the
relatives said.
Taei married a 26-year-old college student, Israa Abdul-Satar, three
months ago, the family said. They showed visitors photographs of the
couple's wedding and honeymoon, the newspaper reported.
The relatives said members of the Shi'ite Mahdi Army militia came to the
wife's home on October 23 and dragged Taei into their car.
"They were saying, 'He's an American journalist," said a woman who
claimed she was the soldier's mother-in-law and asked that she be
identified only by her nickname, Um Omar, because of fear of reprisals.
"We were saying, 'No, he's an Iraqi."
Ahmed Abdul-Satar, who said he was the soldier's brother-in-law,
recounted a frantic scene from the kidnapping, with the women of the
family screaming and begging the gunmen not to take Taei.
The military's fraternization policies prohibit active duty personnel
from marrying local civilians, military spokeswoman Lieutenant Colonel
Josslyn Aberle told the newspaper. Privacy rules prevented her from
giving any details about the missing soldier, she said.
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