[Graymatter]

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0106/p07s02-woiq.html

Here's a commentary by their correspondent "Jill Carroll." Violence threatens Iraqi coalition...

[jimbo123]

Iraq's rising industry: domestic kidnapping

By Jill Carroll | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0422/p06s01-woiq.html

BAGHDAD – Abu Mohammed was chatting with a friend in an auto repair shop in Salman Pak two months ago when masked gunmen surrounded him and stuffed his 260-pound frame in their trunk and sped away.

He spent the next 10 days locked in a bathroom with a hood over his head, marking the passage of time by listening to his captors' prayers.

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