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Gunmen Kidnap 25 in Baghdad
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http://enews.voanews.com/t?r=279&ctl=1346AC7:3919ACA Iraqi-American
Chamber of Commerce, 11 of his employees among people taken away in
latest series of kidnappings Iraqi authorities say gunmen wearing
Iraqi police uniforms kidnapped at least 25 people in a crowded
Baghdad neighborhood Monday.

They say those abducted include the head of the Iraqi-American Chamber
of Commerce and 11 of his employees. Witnesses say the gunmen took the
kidnap victims away in 15 four-wheel drive vehicles.

The mass abduction is the latest in a series of kidnappings across
Baghdad. Many of the kidnappings are carried out by gunmen wearing
Iraqi police or security uniforms.

In other violence, insurgents killed at least 16 people in attacks
across Iraq Monday. In one attack, a suicide car bomber killed four
Iraqi soldiers at an observation post near the northern city of Mosul.

Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.


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