2003 Iraq invasion
Rahhu is the latest in an long line of clerics that have been kidnapped since the 
 led by the United States. Rahhu's predecessor, the Syrian-Catholic Archbishop of Mosul, Monsignor Basil Georges Casmoussa, was kidnapped in January of 2005 and was held for one day before he was released.
Iraqi archbishop from Mosul kidnapped, three aides killed