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Gunmen Snatch 80 Iraqi Factory Workers
Sky News ^
| 6/21/06
Posted on 06/21/2006 8:12:13 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Gunmen Snatch 80 Iraqi Factory Workers
Updated: 16:07, Wednesday June 21, 2006
Gunmen have abducted at least 80 workers from a factory north of Baghdad.
It is believed to be the largest single abduction in Iraq.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hostages; iraq; islam; michaelmoore; noquarter
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To: Lazamataz
Don't, please. Pretty please
61
posted on
06/21/2006 8:33:58 AM PDT
by
don-o
To: sarasota
"It's a show of force by the new AlQ leader in Iraq. I guess quantity matters."
I am hoping that this makes no sense to the Iraqi people either. Maybe now they will all stand up and start turning these terrorists in every time they plant their a$$ in a house.
62
posted on
06/21/2006 8:34:30 AM PDT
by
GottaLuvAkitas1
(Ronald Reagan is the TRUE "Father Of Our Country".)
To: Lazamataz
63
posted on
06/21/2006 8:34:38 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
To: Lazamataz
With America facing off with her bitter enemy..the press....the press, all the DemLibs, Cindy Sheehan and her goons & every last 'hate America first' groupie!....All of them...every last one of them!
To: brazzaville
Yeah, they can't keep watch over that many for long. Anyone facing abduction should assume he is in a fight to the death.
65
posted on
06/21/2006 8:34:45 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Off touch and out of base)
To: don-o
Don't, please. Pretty pleaseToo late.
I'm a conservative.
It's well-known we eat children.
66
posted on
06/21/2006 8:35:01 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.)
To: madison10
I mostly agree, I would add that the Iraq's need to stand up and fight for their country (I know many are). Terrorists should be being found dead in the streets with their skulls caved in by rocks, sticks, or whatever house hold objects could be found by the local residents.
67
posted on
06/21/2006 8:35:08 AM PDT
by
A Texan
(Oderint dum metuant)
To: Lazamataz
Americans should all have a Mini-14 and a 20 round magazine. AK-47's are good for throwing a lot of lead down range but the Ruger is more likely to hit it's target.
To: Lazamataz
Twenty rounds and a bayonet.
69
posted on
06/21/2006 8:36:01 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Off touch and out of base)
To: SeanOGuano
Americans should all have a Mini-14 and a 20 round magazine. AK-47's are good for throwing a lot of lead down range but the Ruger is more likely to hit it's target.Let's get real:
70
posted on
06/21/2006 8:37:16 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.)
To: GottaLuvAkitas1
It helps the terrorist cause this way.
Would you send your wife, or childen to work if you thought it wasn't safe?
Would you go to work if you thought a man with an automatic weapon...dressed like police...showed up and marched you out, knowing that you will never be seen or heard from again?
71
posted on
06/21/2006 8:37:34 AM PDT
by
DCPatriot
("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
To: Guenevere
War against them all! But how is it to be conducted?
To: gcruse
An abduction of this size can't help but stoke regular Iraqis into confronting and ending the rebellion themselves. They know who and where the insurgents are. Let's hope.
73
posted on
06/21/2006 8:38:16 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: A Texan
I unfortunately believe they have more cowards then they have brave. Well, consider what was required to survive under Saddam. The lions are all dead.
74
posted on
06/21/2006 8:39:20 AM PDT
by
Mr. Jeeves
("When the government is invasive, the people are wanting." -- Tao Te Ching)
To: RightWhale
Twenty rounds and a bayonet.I want a firearm that shoots bullets AND bayonets.
Like a cross between a crossbow and a rifle.
75
posted on
06/21/2006 8:39:21 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.)
To: areafiftyone
As we win, they get more and more desperate.
76
posted on
06/21/2006 8:39:29 AM PDT
by
Raycpa
To: All
FROM YAHOO NEWS via Reuters
Dozens of Iraqi factory workers abducted BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen abducted dozens of Iraqi factory workers on Wednesday as they were being ferried home after work in a fleet of buses just north of Baghdad, police and Interior Ministry sources said.
Five busloads of employees of the state-owned Great Victory factory at Taji were commandeered by dozens of gunmen in at least five cars, the officials said. One source put the number of people kidnapped at 80 to 100, another at 100 or more.
The area, home to a major U.S. air base just north of the capital, has seen substantial activity by Sunni Arab militants.
Large-scale abductions of Iraqi soldiers, police and civilians have been a feature of sectarian insurgent violence in the past couple of years. Several have resulted in massacres, where those abducted have later been gunned down by the road.
Police said the industrial complex at Taji housed a second plant, the Hattin factory. It was not clear what either of the factories produced, although one official said they had supplied armaments to Saddam Hussein's military.
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posted on
06/21/2006 8:40:23 AM PDT
by
areafiftyone
(Politicans Are Like Diapers - Both Need To Be Changed Often And For the Same Reason!)
To: worst-case scenario; Guenevere
War against them all [the press and the left]! But how is it to be conducted?Think: Dresden.
78
posted on
06/21/2006 8:40:57 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.)
To: areafiftyone
Well the good news - if there is any - is that it is a lot harder to transport and hide 60 people than it is to do so 1 or 2.
79
posted on
06/21/2006 8:41:11 AM PDT
by
Obadiah
(The beatings will continue until morale improves.)
To: worst-case scenario
I really wish I knew ....
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