Rome, Feb 22, SPA -- An Italian journalist has been kidnapped by anarmed group in Iraq, the news agency "ANSA" said Friday in areport from Baghdad. Giuliana Sgrena, a reporter for newspaper Il Manifesto,was stopped and forced from her car in Baghdad, ANSA said,quoting the journalist's interpreter. Officials at the Italian Foreign Ministry said they werelooking into the report. Il Manifesto said Sgrena had beenworking for paper in Iraq, but they could not confirm thereport.--SPA1457 Local Time 1157 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/236720