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Wed 05 May 2005Senior Iraqi official held as violence escalatesIRAQ: Insurgents kidnapped the senior official in Iraq's rebellious Anbar province yesterday as the deadline set by the captors of an Australian hostage passed with no word on his fate.Raja Nawaf, who only became governor of Anbar a few days ago, was abducted with four bodyguards and taken to Ramadi, his brother Hamed Nawaf reported.