The Kidnappings Just Don't Stop

In addition to the bombings, kidnappings also have to concern the Iraqi people. They can't even go to work or return home safely. Think about that. You don't have to live with that threat when you jump into the old Toyota for your commute now do you?

Unidentified gunmen kidnapped 16 workers for a research center north of Baghdad on Sunday, a police source said.

Armed men kidnapped 16 workers in the Technology Research Center in the Taji area, about 20 km north of Baghdad, the source said on condition of anonymity.

Last week, police sources said that more than 100 people were kidnapped in the same area. Some 50 of them have been released, according to the sources.

I'm going to make a prediction here, so you can bookmark this and check it out later because I'm never wrong.

Its gonna be at least 30 years before life is anywhere near "normal" in Iraq. I hope that's an outside estimate. If the prediction is wrong its only because life will never be "normal". People will live in never-ending fear of violence. Either prediction is entirely plausible.

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