Posted on 03/08/2006 8:28:45 AM PST by nuconvert
Dozens of Security Workers Kidnapped in Baghdad
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqi police said gunmen dressed in camouflage uniforms stormed the offices of a private security firm in Baghdad Wednesday and kidnapped as many as 50 employees, while U.S. and Iraqi forces earlier discovered 24 bodies in various locations across the capital.
The armed attackers arrived at the al-Rawafid Security Co. at 4:30 p.m. local time and forced the workers into seven vehicles, an Interior Ministry official said. The company is in Zayouna, a mixed Sunni-Shiite neighborhood in eastern Baghdad.
Meanwhile, U.S. and Iraqi soldiers found 24 bodies — most handcuffed and strangled — while conducting patrols across Baghdad. Gunfire, explosions and violence elsewhere killed at least seven others.
The violence came as the U.S. ambassador held talks with a top Shiite leader over a political stalemate among Iraqi ethnic and religious factions that threatens the creation of a unity government.
An American military patrol found 18 of the bodies — all males — in an abandoned minibus Tuesday night on a road between two notorious mostly Sunni west Baghdad neighborhoods.
The bodies were brought to Yarmouk Hospital and lined up on stretchers for identification. Most had bruising indicating they were strangled and two were shot, said Dr. Muhanad Jawad, who initially thought they had been hanged. Police believed at least two of the men were foreign Arabs.
Police found the bodies of six more men — four of them strangled and two shot — in other parts of the city.
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Are weapons hard to obtain?
Who is in charge?
Rep. Murtha?
I'm thinking that this 'security firm' employed a lot of non-Iraqi arabs from Syria, Yemen, SA, Iran, etc.
I don't know.
And they should have been on alert after the recent warnings about a likely increase in violence.
What a concept!
Hope you're right.
Another Inside Job
'Most had bruising indicating they were strangled and two were shot, said Dr. Muhanad Jawad, who initially thought they had been hanged. Police believed at least two of the men were foreign Arabs.'
Too Bad Abu hasn't ended up like this.
Yep. Sounds like bad guys. Were they Sunnis, the article would have said "There was continuing sectarian violence bordering on civil war with the killing of 18 young Sunni men"....
And I'm thinking, if that was the case, it was a very good thing...
A modern version of the Muslim Mafia Protection Assn.?
Let's wait 'til we find out which side this security firm was on.
I'm glad I don't have the job of picking out foreign arabs, from other arabs...they're all foreign to me.
This is a culture of sacrifice. It is no longer about war and terrorism --- it is sacrifice.
This is a culture of sacrifice. It is no longer about war and terrorism --- it is sacrifice.
If you mean the Iraqis, they have sacrificed their lives for decades
That thought had us all pretty nervous.
Now, we're thinking this might be a little suspicious. There's a possibility this might not pass the smell test.
We don't know enough yet, though.
I'm guessing that the amount of time left before even the strongest supporters of the war in Iraq start giving up their silly delusions that Iraq is a viable nation is measured in weeks or months now.
Any possibility there were some in the company who were "leaking" where people might be?
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