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Article: Overseas Travel Ban Sought for Missionaries over Iraq Trip.
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- YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea
- Article date:
- November 2, 2004
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SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Yonhap) -- The Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that it has sought an overseas travel ban for five Protestant missionaries who illegally entered Iraq last week in disregard of the government's repeated pleas not to do so.The five, three men and two women aged from 47 to 60, returned home safe Tuesday morning after staying in Iraq for three days, the ministry said.They went into the country from Jordan by taxi on Friday after being denied entry at Baghdad airport the previous day for not having a visa.Officials criticized the missionaries for being too reckless, saying they could have been a terrorist target. Two of them re-entered Iraq even ...