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Head of Iraq's Olympic Committee Kidnapped
yahoo news/AP ^

Posted on 07/15/2006 6:37:19 AM PDT by nuconvert

Head of Iraq's Olympic Committee Kidnapped

Gunmen kidnapped the head of Iraq's Olympic committee and at least 30 employees after storming their offices in Baghdad on Saturday, police said.

The gunmen were riding in three government vehicles and wearing police uniforms when they broke into a cultural center in central Baghdad, police Lt. Thair Mahmoud said.

Mahmoud said Ahmed al-Hijiya, president of the committee, was taken around 1:30 p.m. along with other employees as they attended a conference in the neighborhood of Karradah.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alhijiya; iraq; kidnap; olympic; wot

1 posted on 07/15/2006 6:37:20 AM PDT by nuconvert
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To: Allegra

Have you heard anything about this?


2 posted on 07/15/2006 6:38:59 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: nuconvert

Lotsa head-chopping going on this weekend, and lotsa headless bodies wiull be found around the streets of Baghdad, next week. "Gunmen", my ass; they're murderous muslim-islamist-arab garbage.


3 posted on 07/15/2006 7:09:57 AM PDT by butternut_squash_bisque (The recipe's at my FR HomePage. Try it!)
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To: nuconvert

God help them, they will not survive.

The only hope is that at some point the Iraqi people and the Lebanese people and the Syrian people and the Iranian people, etc.,etc., etc will have had their fill.


4 posted on 07/15/2006 7:12:07 AM PDT by EDINVA
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To: butternut_squash_bisque

They are murderous islamists, but watch the name-calling, please.


5 posted on 07/15/2006 8:16:48 AM PDT by nuconvert ([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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To: nuconvert

Noted.


6 posted on 07/15/2006 9:01:52 AM PDT by butternut_squash_bisque (The recipe's at my FR HomePage. Try it!)
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