Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Go away for a few days and nothing changes.
Gunmen wearing police commando uniforms abducted five British civilians from a Finance Ministry compound in Baghdad today, British officials said, reviving questions about links between government security forces and criminal militias.May '07 has become the third deadliest month for US troops so far, remember that Our Dear Embattled Leader has promised to get even more troops killed in the months ahead as part of His Surge. Five Brits were kidnapped, probably with government help and IMHO as revenge for something the Brits did in the south. And a pair of car bombs killed more than 30 people who were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Stop me if you have heard this one before. Or better yet, let's do everything we can to stop Our Dear Bloodstained Leader.
The United States military also said that 10 American soldiers died Monday in separate attacks, making May the deadliest month for American troops since November 2004. And in the capital, two car bombs blasted crowded neighborhoods, killing at least 32 people and wounding more than 100, according to an interior ministry official.
The abduction — conducted just before noon by gunmen in police vehicles, who according to witnesses entered the fortified Finance Ministry complex without firing a shot — was one of the most brazen, coordinated assaults on Western civilians at an Iraqi government complex since the war started.
The ease with which the attackers worked has amplified concerns about whether elements of Iraq’s government are playing a direct or implicit role in attacks on westerners.
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