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    Gunmen abduct 50 Iraqis; Bombings kill two
    (AP)
    Updated: 2006-03-09 16:40

    On Wednesday, Shiite Vice President Adil Abdul-Mahdi finally co-signed a presidential decree to call parliament into session for the first time since the Dec. 15 elections. The about-face appeared to break a political deadlock that had blocked attempts to begin the process of forming the country's first permanent, post-invasion government.

    "He signed the decree today. I expect the first session to be held on Sunday or by the end of next week at the latest," said Nadim al-Jabiri, head of one of seven Shiite parties that make up the United Iraqi Alliance, the largest bloc in parliament.

    At the same time, however, Abdul-Mahdi's change of heart signaled a potentially dangerous and growing internal dispute among the country's majority Shiite political factions over the nomination of al-Jaafari, who has been criticized for not addressing Sunni complaints about the Interior Ministry.

    The al-Rawafid Security Co. was attacked after gunmen arrived in a convoy of vehicles, including several white SUVs and a pickup truck mounted with a heavy gun, that they used to carry away the hostages, said Interior Ministry Maj. Falah al-Mohammedawi.

    He said the victims, who included bodyguards, drivers, computer technicians and other employees, did not resist because they believed their abductors were police special forces working for the Interior Ministry.

    "It was a terrorist act," ministry Undersecretary Maj. Gen. Ahmed al-Khefaji said.

    Al-Rawafid, which employs a large number of Saddam's former military officers, is one of dozens of companies providing security against the rampant violence in Iraq. Company headquarters are in Zayouna, a volatile and mixed Sunni-Shiite neighborhood in east Baghdad. One of its main clients is Iraqna, a cell phone company owned by Egyptian telecom giant Orascom.

    Meanwhile, the U.S. military said an American soldier was killed Tuesday in a roadside bombing in the northwestern city of Tal Afar and a Marine died the same day in enemy action in western Anbar province. Another Marine was killed in Anbar on Wednesday.

    Their deaths raised to at least 2,303 the number of U.S. military members who have died since the beginning of the war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians.

    The grisly discovery of corpses began when an American military patrol found 18 bodies 錕斤拷 all men 錕斤拷 in a bus on a road between two dangerous and mostly Sunni west Baghdad neighborhoods.

    The bodies were brought to Yarmouk Hospital and lined up on stretchers for identification. Most had bruises indicating they were garroted and two were shot, said Dr. Muhanad Jawad. Police believed at least two of the men were foreign Arabs.

    Police found the bodies of six more men 錕斤拷 four of them strangled and two shot 錕斤拷 discarded in other parts of the city.

    One often overlooked undercurrent of the daily bloodshed in today's Iraq is its effect on children. At least two boys were killed Wednesday in a roadside bombing, police said. And gunmen stopped a school bus carrying about 25 high school girls, shooting the driver in front of his terrified passengers. He later died of his injuries, police said.
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