Gunmen in police uniforms kidnap 17 in Baghdad after new security plan

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/GEO649552.htm

BAGHDAD, July 26 (Reuters) - Gunmen in police uniforms kidnapped 17 people from a central Baghdad apartment building in broad daylight on Wednesday, Interior Ministry sources said, highlighting lawlessness afflicting the country.

The latest abductions came a day after U.S. President George W. Bush and Iraq's prime minister agreed in Washington that more U.S. and Iraqi troops will move into the city to try to curb sectarian violence that has raised fears of all-out civil war.

The kidnappers abducted 10 men, five women and two children from different families living in the building, hours after Bush conceded at a White House news conference that violence in the Iraqi capital was a pressing problem.

Militants and criminal gangs all carry out kidnappings in Iraq, but most of the abductions that can run into dozens of people have sectarian motivations.

Many victims are found dead with bullet wounds and signs of torture in a country where 100 people are killed every day according to the latest estimates from the United Nations.

[Norquist Nemesis]

1. But, but, but aren't the Iraqis standing up?

Aren't the police and military of Iraq the same people that WE TRAINED to fight?

Frankly, I've got a bad feeling about the "plan". I fear the US death toll is going to rise dramatically over the next few weeks with this "plan". :scared: