Iraq gunmen kill 10, abduct 50 on buses

[oberliner]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen ambushed minibuses south of Baghdad on Saturday, killing at least 10 passengers and kidnapping about 50 others, police reported.

The abductions took place at around 7:30 p.m. (1630 GMT) nearly the highly volatile city of Latifiyah, said an officer who asked that his name not be used for fear of reprisals.

Gunmen believed to be local Sunnis set up a false security checkpoint to stop the passengers, occupants of several minibuses. Latifiyah lies in the so-called Sunni Triangle of Death, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) south of Baghdad, where Shiites and U.S. and Iraqi security forces have been repeatedly targeted.

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[nealmhughes]

1. Had this happened in North America or Western Europe we would be

pacing the floors in anguish wondering who? why? and how are the 50 missing?

Nowadays in Iraq it is merely a fact of life, merely another "comma" towards the period.