Gunmen Kidnap Two Lebanese Businessmen in Baghdad

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Armed men burst into a house in the upscale Baghdad neighborhood of Mansour on Wednesday and seized two Lebanese businessmen, police said.

Several foreigners have been snatched in Baghdad in recent months. In September two Americans and a Briton were kidnapped from their house in Mansour and later beheaded by militants loyal to al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

British-born aid worker Margaret Hassan, seized in the capital in October, was also later killed. But a Polish woman abducted in Baghdad was freed unharmed last month.

Police say many kidnappings in Baghdad are carried out by criminal gangs seeking a ransom, while others are the work of militants trying to drive U.S.-led forces out of Iraq.

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