27 August 2007
Anwar Abbas Lafta
Other non-natural
A translator for CBS News in Iraq has been found dead after being abducted from his home by eight to 10 armed men a week ago, CBS said on Monday.
Anwar Abbas Lafta, an Iraqi who had worked for CBS News for 10 months, was abducted on the evening of August 20 by men who entered his home, fought with him and his brother and shot his sister in the arm, CBS said in a statement. His family received two ransom calls during the week, and then a cousin received a call from police that a body had been found on the north side of Sadr City, the large Shi'ite neighbourhood in Baghdad.
The cousin identified the body, CBS said. Abbas, who was in his early 50s and was not married, had worked as a translator for the U.S. military in Iraq for about three years before joining CBS News. He was buried on Monday in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf, CBS said.
