Friday, June 09, 2006

Iraqi oil ministry official kidnapped

President Bush certainly had it right when he cautioned that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's death did not necessarily mean the end of violence and terror in Iraq.

As a matter of fact, the very same day that Zarqawi met his maker, the terror rolled right along, unimpeded.

Men with guns abducted a senior Iraqi oil ministry official on Thursday.

The incident happened the same day U.S. troops killed Iraq's al Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, whose demise the Iraqi Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani said would help improve the country's oil production, particularly in the north.

[sources] said Muthana al-Badri, Director General of Iraq's State Company for Oil Projects (SCOP), was on his way home in the Sunni district of Adhamiya when gunmen in four cars stopped his car and abducted him but set his driver free.

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