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| Iraq |
| Two car bomb attacks, Westerners kidnapped in Baghdad |
| 2007-05-29 |
| 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 identified the lecturers as German and said up to four were seized when gunmen entered 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, according to the witness who was in the conference room. Police said about 40 gunmen sealed off streets around the three-storey computer science building belonging to the ministry before they went inside. At least 23 people were killed and 68 wounded when a bomb planted in a parked minibus exploded in a busy commercial area in central Baghdad, police said. The blast was near a major intersection in Tayaran Square, an area filled with markets where day labourers, usually poor Shi'ites, queue for work. At least 15 people were killed and 36 wounded in another car bomb attack in Baghdad's south-western Amil district, police said. Twenty-five people were killed in a similar attack a week ago in Amil, a Shi'ite district repeatedly targeted in attacks blamed on Sunni Islamist al Qaeda. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #1 I guess they want Germany to pull its armed forces out of Iraq, right? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2007-05-29 09:12 |