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["Tracy J" <tracy9j AT frontiernet.net>]

Hi, Wendy.  This is an excerpt fro an article in today's New York Times.

The kidnapping, by gunmen wearing Iraqi police commando uniforms and driving 
more than 20 vehicles with Interior Ministry markings, was similar in style 
to several other mass abductions this year. The captives, who included 
Shiites, Sunni Arabs, Kurds and Christians, were driven to a predominantly 
Shiite area of eastern Baghdad, officials said, probably passing through 
numerous police checkpoints unimpeded.

Hours after the abduction, the Interior Ministry, which oversees the nation's 
police forces, arrested several police commanders in charge of the area 
where the ministry site is. And late Tuesday, Mr. Maliki, in an appearance 
on state-run television, said he had ordered an intensive search for the 
kidnapping victims.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/16/world/middleeast/16iraq.html

Tracy Julian
in East North-Central Minnesota

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wendy Gulliver" <crazygardens AT verizon.net>


> Does anyone know if the people who kidnapped those 70some people from the
> university in Iraq wearing government police uniforms were actually
> affiliated with the current government in Iraq or are there impersonators
> wearing government police garb running loose there now.  At first, there 
> was
> much talk about the uniforms, but now they seem to be downplaying it.