Gunmen Snatch 80 Iraqi Factory Workers

Sky News ^ | 6/21/06

[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.

More follows...

[don-o]

Don't, please. Pretty please

[GottaLuvAkitas1]

"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.

[BenLurkin]

Bump

[Guenevere]

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!

[RightWhale]

Yeah, they can't keep watch over that many for long. Anyone facing abduction should assume he is in a fight to the death.

[Lazamataz]

Don't, please. Pretty please

Too late.

I'm a conservative.

It's well-known we eat children.

[A Texan]

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.

[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.

[RightWhale]

Twenty rounds and a bayonet.

[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.

Let's get real:

[DCPatriot]

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?

[worst-case scenario]

War against them all! But how is it to be conducted?

[1Old Pro]

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.

[Mr. Jeeves]

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.

[Lazamataz]

Twenty rounds and a bayonet.

I want a firearm that shoots bullets AND bayonets.

Like a cross between a crossbow and a rifle.

[Raycpa]

As we win, they get more and more desperate.

[areafiftyone]

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.

[Lazamataz]

War against them all [the press and the left]! But how is it to be conducted?

Think: Dresden.

[Obadiah]

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.

[Guenevere]

I really wish I knew ....