Doctors flee Iraq

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Baghdad - Iraq's top surgeons, neurologists and other doctors are fleeing Baghdad, bullied into exile by a growing gang of kidnappers seeking hefty ransoms from the country's affluent elite.

"The kidnapping of doctors has risen over the past few months, forcing the best practitioners to leave Iraq and settle in neighbouring countries to protect themselves," said health ministry public affairs officer May Yassin.

May Yassin confirmed that some of the country's most qualified specialists had been abducted recently and released in exchange for ransoms ranging between 1 000 and 10 000 dollars. "They were all kidnapped in their offices," she said.

Many of the country's most renowned neurologists, cardiologists, gynaecologists, emergency surgeons and plastic surgeons have been kidnapped in recent months.

"Several dozen doctors or their children were abducted, especially in Baghdad," Yassin said, although no official figure was available.

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_1534921,00.html

This is the first I've heard about this. (Could have missed it since I don't really watch TV.) But if this is the first publishing on a tiny South African Website, what does it say about the American Media Whores, Mr. Eisner?

[mom cat]

1. First that I heard of this too. Let's give a big round of applause to * f

for staying the course.