2 Americans, 1 Briton Kidnapped in Iraq

[southernleftylady]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen kidnapped two Americans and a Briton Thursday from a house in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood where many foreign companies are based, the Interior Ministry and witnesses said.
The three were employed by Gulf Services Company, a Middle East-based construction firm, and were seized from a two-story house surrounded by a wall in the al-Mansour neighborhood, said Col. Adnan Abdel-Rahman, a ministry official.

At least four other foreigners — two Frenchmen and two Italian women — have been taken hostage in recent days. On Wednesday, villagers north of Baghdad had found three decapitated bodies, said to be Iraqis, with their hands bound.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...id=540&ncid=716
Oh i will be thinking of their family .. i doubt that this will go good though

[teryang]

1. Kofi Annan reiterates the moral of the story

<Meanwhile, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan (news - web sites) told the British Broadcasting Corp. he feared continued insecurity in Iraq would block planned Iraqi elections in January.

He also reiterated his judgment that the American-led attack on Iraq, conducted without U.N. approval, was in contravention of the U.N. charter. "From our point of view and the (U.N.) charter point of view it was illegal," Annan said in the BBC interview.<the end>

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