MASS KIDNAPPING... LARGEST SINCE START OF WAR...

Associated Press BASSEM MROUE November 14, 2006 09:06 AM

Gunmen dressed as police commandos kidnapped up to 150 staff and visitors in a lightning raid on a Baghdad research institute Tuesday, the largest mass abduction since the start of the U.S. occupation. Three of those taken were later released.

Iraq's higher education minister immediately ordered all universities closed until security improvements are made, saying he was "not ready to see more professors get killed.

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