DID U.S. HAVE IRANIAN BANKER KIDNAPPED AS PROVOCATION?

"Iran’s ambassador to Baghdad outlined an ambitious plan... to greatly expand its economic and military ties with Iraq — including an Iranian national bank branch in the heart of the capital... Mr. Qumi said the bank was just the first of what he said would be several in Iraq — an agricultural bank and three private banks also intend to open branches.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/29/world/middleeast/29iranians.html?ex=1186290000&en=cc2417c3386132ad&ei=5087&excamp=mkt_at10

"Iran blamed America for the "terrorist" kidnapping of a Iranian diplomat in Baghdad... on his way to the new Baghdad branch of the Iranian state-owned Bank Melli... he was ordered out of his car by... members of the Iraqi 36th Commando Battalion, a special military unit that works closely with US forces in the capital and drove American vehicles.... a US military spokesman rejected the charge today."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article1340201.ece