Iraqi American uses Flickr to find missing family in Baghdad

I don't know much about this, other than what it appears to be: an Iraqi-American family is posting photos and sketches on Flickr in an attempt to locate a missing relative in Baghdad whom they believe may have been kidnapped. I'm not able to separately confirm the stated information at this time, but here's what appears on Flickr:

My brother, Awj Al-Jaibaji, 58, married, and a father of nine, was hit by a bullet in his abdomen, by the American military in Al-Amiriyah, Baghdad. It happened on July 3, 2007 at 11:00 pm. He was out of his house to turn off his electric power generator. The American military took him away for treatment of his bullet wound, but no one has heard about him since. His family has not been contacted, told of his where about, or of his condition. The family is extremely worried about him.

Link to contact info and more about the case. (thanks, Jacob Appelbaum)

Reader comment: Alek Traunic says,

This sounds almost too similar to a story from this recently aired documentary. Either this is happening a lot in Iraq, or it is some weird prank.

UPDATE 1, 07-13-07: In related news, a much respected Iraqi journalist with the New York Times was killed today. Link. Khalid W. Hassan was only 23 years old.

He had called the bureau earlier and said his normal route to the office had been blocked by a security checkpoint.

"I'm trying to find another way," he told the bureau staff.

About a half an hour later he called his mother, with whom he lived, telling her, "I've been shot."

UPDATE 2, 07-15-07: An email from someone identifying themselves as this Awj Al-Jaibaji's relative reports that his body has been found, delivered to a morgue in Baghdad. Again, I have no immediate way of verifying details, and have no further information about this man's reported death.