Baghdad Universities are CLOSED Because of Kidnappings

[leftchick]

I watched an interesting contrast/censorship this morning on CNN and CNNI. Arwa Damon reporting from Bagdad was on CNN International and interviewed a student from Baghdad U. The student was in complete despair at the close of the school and said it was proof of Iraq's complete destruction. Nothing on CNN, her report there had nothing on that student's words that I heard.

This is so sad.....


http://www.dawn.com/2006/11/15/top13.htm

Universities closed as 150 staff kidnapped


BAGHDAD, Nov 14: Gunmen dressed as police commandos kidnapped up to 150 staff and visitors in a lightning raid on a Baghdad research institute on Tuesday, the largest mass abduction since the start of the US occupation.

Hours later, the interior ministry said three of the kidnap victims were apparently set free and found unharmed along eastern Baghdad's Palestine Street.

Ministry spokesman Brig. Abdul-Karim Khallaf, told The Associated Press the police chief of the Karradah neighbourhood where the kidnappings occurred has been placed under investigation along with some of his officers.

The fate of the remaining kidnap victims remained unknown.

Iraq's higher education minister immediately ordered all universities closed until security improvements are made, saying he was ''not ready to see more professors get killed.

[aquart]

1. Every story I read has a different number.

Does anyone actually know who and how many are gone? They freed three. Do we know why?

[malaise]

2. Bushco has created nothing but

chaos in Iraq. Let them spin as they like. Truth will out.

[Freedomofspeech]

3. I can't sleep at night...

thinking of the death and destruction that bush has wrought on Iraq. Why doesn't the UN charge him with war crimes?