Authorities searching for 3 American contractors missing in Baghdad

Three American contractors were kidnapped from a Baghdad apartment known to be a brothel on Friday afternoon, U.S. and Iraqi officials told CNN Monday.

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The men — two Iraqi-Americans and an Egyptian-American working for the security service company Sallyport — were kidnapped from the Dora neighborhood, and officials spent Monday searching the al-Saha portion of the area, CNN reports. Authorities are trying to figure out if the men were lured to the apartment, or if they were found to be there and then kidnapped. An Iraqi official told CNN they were taken away from the apartment in a vehicle convoy. U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby said the department is aware of the report that American citizens are missing in Baghdad, and "we are working with the full cooperation of the Iraq authorities to locate and recover the individuals."

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.