Iraqi women flee the site where a car bomb exploded in Baghdad's poor Sadr City district. More than 100 Iraqis employed by the ministry of industry north of Baghdad were kidnapped by gunmen as they left work.(AFP/Wissam Al-Okaili)
Posted on 06/21/2006 8:12:13 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Gunmen have abducted at least 80 workers from a factory north of Baghdad.
It is believed to be the largest single abduction in Iraq.
More follows...
If I remember correctly Iraqis are all allowed to own one AK47 and ammo, maybe someone else can back me up or correct me on this.
Iraqi women flee the site where a car bomb exploded in Baghdad's poor Sadr City district. More than 100 Iraqis employed by the ministry of industry north of Baghdad were kidnapped by gunmen as they left work.(AFP/Wissam Al-Okaili)
Big Ceegar. Which is what we are trying to make possible to happen. The fact that intel for killing the Z-Man came from Iraqi sources is a huge encouragement. If we can get the same result off this, we are well on the way to the end game.
And the bad guys obey that, I suppose? Seriesly, what is the thinking with that?
btw, let me say that I appreciate your postings!
Mass murder probably has already occured.
I wouldn't be surprised. I am afraid this new leader of Al Qaeda will not wait a while to kill kidnapped victims. We need to get this guy and FAST!
Baghdad gunmen kill third Saddam defense lawyer
By Ibon Villelabeitia and Mussab Al-Khairalla
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - One of Saddam Hussein's main lawyers was shot dead on Wednesday after men in police uniforms took him from his home, police and relatives said, the third defense attorney to be killed since the trial opened in October.
Gunmen also abducted at least 80 Iraqi factory workers traveling in a fleet of buses just north of Baghdad, police and Interior Ministry sources said.
The killing of Khamis al-Obaidi was a new setback for the U.S.-backed court. It fueled complaints that sectarian violence, some by Shi'ite militias within the police, against Saddam's once-dominant Sunni Arab minority, is crippling a fair trial.
The lead defense lawyer called for the case to be suspended and the defendants taken abroad after the death of his deputy.
Al Qaeda's allies said in a Web posting they would kill four Russian embassy staff kidnapped in Baghdad 18 days ago because Moscow failed to meet a deadline to pull troops out of Chechnya. Russia urged the group to heed Muslim calls to free the men.
Five busloads of employees from a factory in Taji north of Baghdad were commandeered by dozens of gunmen, officials said. One source put the number of those kidnapped at least 100.
Obaidi's wife told another defense lawyer that men in police uniform took Obaidi from his Baghdad home around 7 a.m.
"They said 'We're from internal security and we need you for questioning'," Qatari attorney Najeeb al-Nuaimi told Al Jazeera television. Two hours later, Obaidi's body was dumped on a road beside a poster honoring a Shi'ite cleric killed under Saddam.
The attack appeared very similar to the killing of another lawyer the day after the televised trial began in October.
Saddam and seven Baath party allies are being tried for crimes against humanity over the deaths of Shi'ite villagers.
A police officer who identified himself as Captain Sabah said Obaidi had been shot eight times and there were signs of torture, both his arms were broken.
Chief prosecutor Jaafar al-Moussawi said the killing would "not affect or delay the trial and we will defy terrorism."
It came two days after Moussawi demanded the death penalty for Saddam and three of his former senior aides.
SUSPENSION CALL
Shopowners told Reuters three gunmen dumped the body of Obaidi at a roundabout under a poster of a senior Shi'ite cleric killed by Saddam's agents in 1999. The cleric is the father of Moqtada al-Sadr, a cleric and leader of the Mehdi Army militia.
"They fired into the air and said 'This is the fate of Baathists!'," said a vegetable seller whose shop is 10 meters (yards) from where the body was dumped.
The area is not far from the Sadr City slum, a stronghold of Sadr's militia. The body of Saadoun Janabi, the first lawyer to be killed, was also dumped nearby. Neighbors said then that he was seized by men saying they were from the Interior Ministry.
Unlike other defense lawyers, Obaidi still lived in Iraq.
Chief defense counsel Khalil al-Dulaimi said the trial should be suspended and the defendants taken abroad for safety: "We hold the U.S. and Iraqi governments, and particularly the militias, responsible for Obaidi's killing," he told Reuters.
A Western official close to the court said Obaidi was offered protection but had turned it down.
Nuaimi told Jazeera other defense lawyers had received written death threats from pro-government Shi'ite militias.
Obaidi told Reuters last year he preferred to stay in Iraq during court recesses: "Whatever will be will be," he said.
The trial, which started in October, has also been marred by the resignation of the previous judge, who complained the Shi'ite-led government was pressuring him over the case.
Defense lawyers are due to sum up on July 10.
(Additional reporting by Ross Colvin and Ahmed Rasheed in Baghdad)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/iraq_dc;_ylt=AqBk6yQYBlb.lnuD108FA_IFO7gF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5bGVna3NhBHNlYwNzc3JlbA--
There is another right behind him.
Photo dated October 2005 shows Khamis al-Obeidi, a lawyer for Saddam Hussein, attending a court session in Baghdad's Green Zone. Obeidi was shot in the head after being kidnapped from his Baghdad home, the third defense attorney to be slain.(AFP/Pool/File/Bob Strong)
An Iraqi policeman shows a picture of Khamis al-Obeidi, one of Saddam Hussein's defense lawyers. Obeidi was shot in the head after being kidnapped from his Baghdad home, the third defense attorney to be slain.(AFP/Wissam Al-Okaili)
Most people have no idea how docile and helpless a population can be after it's been exposed to nanny-state socialism in an urban setting for so like.
When will the rest of the world wake up!
These thugs cannot be ignored. They're not going to go away if we leave Iraq. They have to be fought and killed wherever they are.
France, Germany, etc., should be sending troops to Iraq.
The rationale behind that is that they can immediately arrest anyone carrying a weapon during this lockdown. So if the bad guys are the only ones carrying, they'll get nailed on a checkpoint search and taken into custody. There are also troops all over the place.
When the clamp comes off this place, Iraqi citizens will be allowed to carry again. They've implemented this curfew and no-carry law before - the most recent being the time following the Samarra mosque bombing.
What then do you suggest?
So, you believe we don't have workplace shootings in spite of our gun laws ?
That is not what the ME has experienced. They have had caliphate and they have had sheikh and they have had sultan. All of these rely on family for state structure, and division of labor for economic function. They have no experience of the state in itself, neither capitalist nor communist nor caste nor Confucian.
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