Gunmen Seize 50 at Iraq Security Firm
This incident--coming on the heels of the discovery of 20 bodies dumped in Baghdad--is the face of urban civil war on the model of the Battle of Algiers.BBC
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Gunmen dressed in Iraqi police uniforms have raided the offices of a security firm in Baghdad, seizing 50 employees.
The incident happened in the eastern Zayouna district of the city. Among those captured was the head of the private firm, al-Rawafed.
It came after the bodies of 20 men were found dumped in the Iraqi capital.
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Are we seeing the next "Battle of Algiers"? Coming only a day after the fall of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, thousands of people defied a government ban to hold a pro-democracy rally in Algeria.
Protests erupted in the Algerian capital of Algiers and several other cities this week as people took to the streets over a doubling of food prices and a stubborn 25 percent unemployment rate.
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