Iraqi Oil Minister Kidnapped:

[Subdivisions]

I guess if they don't want to give us their oil the easy way, we'll have to get nasty and take it the hard way.

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/08/14/ap4018535.html

w BAGHDAD - Dozens of uniformed gunmen in 17 official vehicles stormed an Oil Ministry compound in Baghdad and abducted a deputy oil minister and three other officials, a ministry spokesman and police said. Outside the capital, a suicide truck bomber struck a strategic bridge, killing at least 10 people, police said.

The attacks came as 16,000 U.S. and Iraqi troops began a new operation north of the Iraqi capital targeting insurgents who have fled a crackdown in the restive city of Baqouba, the military said Tuesday.

Abdel-Jabar al-Wagaa, the senior assistant to Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani, was spirited away by more than 50 gunmen wearing security forces uniforms and driving what were believed to be military vehicles, said Assem Jihad, the oil ministry spokesman.

An Interior Minister official, speaking anonymously because he was not authorized to release the information, said a top official in the State Oil Marketing Organization and three directors general in the operation also were kidnapped.

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[EFerrari]

1. It's hard to be surprised at this sh#t any more.

:shrug:

[Subdivisions]

3. This sounds like a good candidate for some Blackwater action. n/t

[rocktivity]

5. It's even harder to figure out who the perps are.

:eyes:
rocknation

[EFerrari]

6. CNN will say they're terra-ists.

But, qui bono? :eyes:

[Venus Dog]

2. Yeah, I'd say the surge was working all right

:eyes:

[Robbien]

4. Did you see where oil tankers were driven up north and exploded today

killing almost 300 and injuring 200? Wonder if that along with this is all part of one operation.

It seems like a violence free for all over there.

[Subdivisions]

7. Link please?

[NI4NI]

8. Anyone curious about the man's position

on privatizing Iraqi oil?
I am.

[Disturbed]

9. Will this kidnapping pop down the memory hole as the

kidnapping of five Brits did?