http://www.timesofoman.com/newsdetails.asp?newsid=32060
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100 Iraqi govt employees kidnapped
BAGHDAD -- More than 100 Iraqis employed by the ministry of industry
north of Baghdad were kidnapped by gunmen as they left work Wednesday, a
security source said.
The workers at the Hateen and Nasr factories in the restive town of Taji,
30 kilometres (20 miles) north of the capital, were ambushed by at least 50
gunmen who had arrived in five minibuses, the source said.
They were loaded onto the same buses that were waiting to take them back
to their homes, he said.
No further details were immediately available on the spectacular
kidnapping which resembled similar incidents in the past in which ordinary
civilians as well as Iraqi army and police members have been snatched en masse.
On June 5, 50 people working for long distance bus travel companies in
central Baghdad were kidnapped by gunmen dressed in ministry of interior
uniforms in broad daylight. Only 17 out of the group have been released since.
Hateen and Nasr were part of the military-industrial complex under the
rule of ousted leader Saddam Hussein before their conversion into civilian
manufacturing facilities belonging to the ministry of industry.
The factories had been visited by UN inspectors in relation to the former
regime's alleged weapons of mass destruction programme. Taji is also home to a
major former regime military base that is now occupied by US forces. -- AFP
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