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Excerpt - BAGHDAD, May 29 (Reuters) - Gunmen wearing police uniforms kidnapped at least three Western lecturers and several of their bodyguards from a Finance Ministry building in central Baghdad on Tuesday, a witness told Reuters. Police said the lecturers were German and they were seized from their cars outside the ministry building. The lecturers had been advising ministry personnel on organising electronic contracts, said the witness, who did not want to be identified. The gunmen entered the lecture room led by a man wearing a police major's uniform. "Where are the foreigners, where are the foreigners?", the gunmen shouted,...

Lecturers will be asked to report on Muslim students suspected of involvement in extremism under Government guidance expected today. The document, drawn up by the Department for Education and Skills, comes amid continuing concerns that universities are a breeding ground for Islamic terrorists.Sheikh Musa Admani, the Muslim chaplain at London Metropolitan University and an adviser to Bill Rammell, the higher education minister, said this week that he was aware of at least four universities in which students claim to have been "groomed" by extremists. Some students had been so deeply indoctrinated that they had gone to Iraq and Afghanistan to...

Three weeks ago, at his post-Convention peak, Kerry was ahead by nearly three percentage points in our weekly tracking update. This week, Bush is ahead by nearly three points. The race for the White House, while still very close, is now the President's to lose. http://www.rasmussenreports.com/The%20Bush%20Bounce.htm