A 33-year-old Irish correspondent for the Guardian newspaper has been kidnapped in Baghdad. Rory Carroll was apprehended Wednesday by masked gunmen after interviewing a victim of Saddam Hussein’s regime. The newspaper’s editor Alan Rusbridger, said “We urge those holding him to release him swiftly–for the sake of his family and for the sake of anyone who believes the world needs to be kept fully informed about events in Iraq today.”