Red Crescent stops work in Baghdad after kidnap

[maddezmom]

BAGHDAD - Iraqi Red Crescent aid workers suspended work in war-torn Baghdad on Monday after two dozen of their colleagues fell victim to the latest mass kidnap to shock a city plagued by sectarian violence.


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“Only in Baghdad have we stopped, to make more pressure to free those who have been kidnapped,” the Iraqi Red Crescent’s secretary general Mazen Abdallah told AFP one day after the abductions.

“We are the only organisation working in all Iraq. We don’t want to stop,” he added, emphasising that the closure applied only to the Red Crescent’s health and relief workers in the capital.

In addition to the main branch targeted in the kidnapping, the Iraqi Red Crescent has closed another 40 subsidiary offices in Baghdad, affecting more than 600 staff, a large proportion of them security guards, Abdallah said.

more: http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2006/December/focusoniraq_December94.xml§ion=focusoniraq

[sam sarrha]

1. they are screwed.. when 300 people are injured a day there and the hospitals are not even working

they prpbably just fester and die..

[Kagemusha]

2. Well, looks like the kidnappers got exactly what they wanted

A political enemy of Bush was silenced. Everyone's happy.

[itsmesgd]

3. where is all the good news?

Pickles Bush said that there is lots of good things that we just don't hear about.
Would the terrorist's getting their way be good news or bad news? Sarcastic of course, but this should FURTHER show that Operation Iraqi Liberation (O.I.L. as it was first called) is a complete failure. But no, even Reid is behind sending more troops in to the country (for a short time)- sure.