Video. Surveillance video shows kidnapping of US journalist in Baghdad

EuroNews · 🇫🇷 public France · Apr 01, 2026 · 50 words

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Surveillance video shows kidnapping of US journalist in Baghdad Copy/paste the link below: Copy/paste the article video embed link below: Updated: Surveillance footage appears to show the abduction of US journalist Shelly Kittleson in Baghdad, as officials…

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The provided Wikipedia evidence is unrelated to the specific claim about Shelly Kittleson's kidnapping. No sources directly mention surveillance footage of her abduction in Baghdad. The cited Wikipedia entries only discuss Iraqi protests and the Islamic State, which do not corroborate or contradict the claim.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A series of demonstrations, marches, sit-ins and civil disobedience took place in Iraq from 2019 until 2021. It started on 1 October 2019, a date which was set by civil activists on social media, spre…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019–2021_Iraqi_protests

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and by its Arabic acronym Daesh, is a transnational Salafi jihadist m…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State

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