Globe and Mail: Academics seized in daring Baghdad raid
Gunmen barged into a research institute in central Baghdad yesterday and seized dozens of staff and visitors in what appears to be one of the biggest mass abductions since the start of the U.S. occupation of Iraq.
The Chronicle: Gunmen in Iraq Abduct Scores of Men in Daytime Raid on a Higher-Education Agency’s Offices
In a grim escalation of violence against Iraqi higher education, gunmen raided a government education agency in Baghdad on Tuesday and abducted scores of male employees and visitors. Some of the men were released within hours of the attack. The rest were freed in police raids shortly before midnight, a security adviser in the Iraqi president’s office told the BBC.
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