Real Housewives of D.C. husband Tareq Salahi, known best for crashing a State dinner at the White House with his wife Michaele, claims she has been kidnapped, TMZ reports:
Tareq claims he got a phone call from Michaele late last night ... from an unfamiliar Oregon cell phone number ... and she told him she was going to her mother's house, located minutes away from the Salahi home.
Tareq says he was suspicious -- so he called Michaele's mother ... who told him she hadn't spoken with Michaele and was unaware of her plans. That's when Tareq -- fearing Michaele had been abducted -- called the Warren County Sheriff's Dept. for help.
But Tareq claims deputies told him she had already called them -- informing them she was OK and just dealing with some "family issues." Tareq tells TMZ ... he believes Michaele had been FORCED to make the phone calls by her abductor ... and believes she is in very real danger ... especially because the Salahis have received death threats in the past.