Iraq's deputy health minister kidnapped from home

CNN

At least 24 gunmen -- some dressed as national police -- stormed the house of Iraq's deputy health minister, Ammar al-Saffar, on Sunday and abducted him, a Baghdad emergency police official told CNN. The kidnapping came as U.S.-led coalition and Iraqi forces continued searching for five Western security contractors seized in southern Iraq Thursday, as well as hostages taken in a mass kidnapping at a Baghdad research institute earlier last week. The kidnapping of al-Saffar happened about 5:30 p.m. (9:30 a.m. ET) in the northern Baghdad neighborhood of Adhamiya, a predominantly Sunni neighborhood, the official said...

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Iraqi Ministry of Health stealing Sunni’s dead bodies

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This is the connection with today’s story: Iraq’s deputy health minister kidnapped from home. Islamemo reveals the true story behind the Deputy Health Minister kidnapping: Reliable sources revealed a scandal in the Iraqi Ministry of Health, The new crime committed by the ministry headed by Ali Al-Shamari from Sadr Militia and former Mahdi Army, previously named minister of health in the recent Maliki government. "Islammemo" correspondent in Baghdad revealed that Al-Shamari had agreed to use the bodies of slain Sunnis, who filled refrigerators to medical collages for autopsy, and he approved the use of Sunni dead body pats and organs...

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