October 11, 2004
Baghdad Mobile Phone Service Down
Mobile phone service in the Baghdad area was out of service Monday as employees of the communications company went on strike to protest the kidnapping of two Egyptian engineers, reports Cellular News.
"The two Egyptian engineers, Mustafa Mohammed Abdel Latif and Mahmmoud Turk, were among six people working for the Iraqna mobile telephone company who were abducted last month.
Four of them were released but the two Egyptians remain in captivity. "
Related article:
-- Irak - Phone workers seized -- threat to network - Many of the scores of kidnappings of foreigners this year have been aimed at thwarting Iraq's reconstruction. Iraqna, majority owned by Egypt's wealthy Sawaris family, is Iraq's first cellular phone company, established less than a year ago. Cell phones were banned by the Saddam Hussein regime
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