Tromp
11-14-2006, 01:28 PM
This is just messed up to the Nth degree
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
zaman.com
One hundred people were kidnapped on Tuesday from a Higher Education Ministry building in the Iraqi capital of Bagdat (Baghdad) by gunmen wearing Iraqi police commando uniforms.
Assailants dressed in military-style uniforms took the hostages from a research institute directly under the Ministry of Higher Education building in the capital's Karada district and forced their captives into waiting vehicles, a statement by the Interior Ministry said.
A ministry spokesperson said men were separated from the women, and the women then had their mobile phones taken and were locked in a separate room.
Assailants forced nearly 100 men including the institute's deputy general directors, employees and visitors into vehicles at gunpoint and drove off to an unknown destination.
Another Interior Ministry source had announced the number of men kidnapped as 20 this morning. The mass abduction quickly spurred the arrest of five police commanders suspected of involvement in the kidnapping, as state television reported that a special committee had been set up to find the hostages.
The Iraqi Higher Education Ministry works under the National Concord Front, a Sunni Arab group in Iraq's Shiite-led national unity government.
A similar kidnapping took place in Baghdad in July. Gunmen wearing police uniforms kidnapped 30 people in a daylight raid on an Iraqi National Olympic Committee meeting.
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
zaman.com
One hundred people were kidnapped on Tuesday from a Higher Education Ministry building in the Iraqi capital of Bagdat (Baghdad) by gunmen wearing Iraqi police commando uniforms.
Assailants dressed in military-style uniforms took the hostages from a research institute directly under the Ministry of Higher Education building in the capital's Karada district and forced their captives into waiting vehicles, a statement by the Interior Ministry said.
A ministry spokesperson said men were separated from the women, and the women then had their mobile phones taken and were locked in a separate room.
Assailants forced nearly 100 men including the institute's deputy general directors, employees and visitors into vehicles at gunpoint and drove off to an unknown destination.
Another Interior Ministry source had announced the number of men kidnapped as 20 this morning. The mass abduction quickly spurred the arrest of five police commanders suspected of involvement in the kidnapping, as state television reported that a special committee had been set up to find the hostages.
The Iraqi Higher Education Ministry works under the National Concord Front, a Sunni Arab group in Iraq's Shiite-led national unity government.
A similar kidnapping took place in Baghdad in July. Gunmen wearing police uniforms kidnapped 30 people in a daylight raid on an Iraqi National Olympic Committee meeting.