Cocoa
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Sat Jul-24-04 08:46 AM
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Head of Iraq construction group kidnapped in Baghdad |
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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=5762678
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen kidnapped the head of an Iraqi state-owned construction company on Saturday as he drove from his home in a southern Baghdad suburb to work, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.
Raad Adnan Mahmoud, director of the al-Mansour Contracting Company, was seized after the gunmen blocked his car in a busy street in the Zaieuna neighborhood in the southeast of the capital, Ministry spokesman Colonel Adnan Abdel Rahman said.
Al-Mansour, one of Iraq's largest construction companies, has carried out several reconstruction projects for Iraq's ministries, including a housing complex in Baghdad and military barracks for the new Iraqi army.
As well as running al-Mansour, Mahmoud is also a senior official in Iraq's Housing and Construction Ministry.
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truth2power
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Sat Jul-24-04 10:30 AM
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1. Heard this on NPR just before coming here. |
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"The assassinations appear an attempt to disrupt Iraq's reconstruction and unsettle the interim Iraqi government, which regained sovereignty from U.S. authorities late last month."
I wish the media would stop with this load of crap. Sovereignty? The Iraqis don't have no stinking sovereignty. If they really had a sovereign government, maybe they wouldn't have to resort to kidnapping and assassination to have their voices heard. IMHO
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