Gunmen seize 100 in Iraq

[malaise]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6146152.stm
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Gunmen in military-style uniforms have kidnapped more than 100 men from a research institute belonging to Iraq's higher education ministry.

A ministry spokeswoman said the gunmen arrived in new pick-up vehicles and stormed the ministry's Research Directorate in central Baghdad.

They ordered women into one room and seized the men, including employees, guards and visitors to the building.

Academics and researchers have been frequent targets of violence in Iraq.
Mr Makki interrupted a televised parliamentary session with the news and urged the prime minister and interior and defence ministers to respond rapidly to what he called a "national catastrophe".
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Freedom is on the march indeed.

[AIJ Alom]

1. Good grief. They're killing their own intellectuals

or at least driving them away. It's a shame that petty differences will destroy a nation with so much history and tradition. And these are individuals that would have helped to bridge that expanse between the warring factions.

[aquart]

3. No, these deaths will also be on our heads.

Any person of common knowledge or sense knew this would be the outcome of removing Saddam.

[lapfog_1]

2. Fundies of all stripes have no use for education or science.

I hope it was for ransom... but I fear it isn't.

[whirlygigspin]

4. good swipe

We don't need no edjamucation, weez godly peeples