Iraq says abductees used in car bombings
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Iraqi insurgents are no longer using just volunteers as suicide car bombers but are instead kidnapping drivers, rigging their vehicles with explosives and blowing them up, the Defense Ministry said Thursday.
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Police rounded up dozens of suspects  Monday after twin suicide car bombings killed 66 people in  Iraq's Shi'ite holy cities, attacks that intensified fears of  sectarian violence during elections on Jan. 30.
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Suicide attackers carried out a string of car bombings against Iraqi policemen in Baghdad and Kurdish militiamen in the north, killing
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_ Gunmen abducted a Lebanese-American contractor who worked with the US Army from his Baghdad home, Iraqi officials said Wednesday, while four Jordanian truck drivers were seized by assailants in a separate kidnapping.
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The six Iraqis, two Lebanese and two Indonesian women were taken by The Islamic Army in Iraq. The group also claimed responsibility for seizing two French journalists last month.
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Assailants targeted convoys of the interim government's ministers of environment and education in two separate bombings in Baghdad on Tuesday, officials said.
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Twin suicide car bombs killed 14 Iraqi police and guards, as US troops captured a top aide to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Islamic militant behind a wave of attacks and kidnappings.
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Iraq's foreign minister said on Wednesday he suspected Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army militia was behind the abduction of five Britons from a government building in Baghdad.
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Three British nationals have been abducted in Baghdad, according to the Iraqi interior ministry.
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September 19, 2004 -- BAGHDAD - Terrorists yesterday set off a car bomb that killed two US soldiers, and threatened to kill two kidnapped Americans, a Briton and 10 other hostages.
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Uniformed gunmen kidnapped people from computer stores in Baghdad on Monday as the prime minister, racing to avert civil war, presented a plan to halt sectarian violence by forming local committees and controlling the media.
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Car bombings in Najaf and Karbala killed at least 61. In Baghdad, three election officials were pulled from their car and executed.
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Videotapes seized during U.S. raids on suspected al-Qaida in Iraq hide-outs show the terror group training young boys to kidnap and assassinate civilians, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Wednesday.
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Backed by air power, U.S. forces targeting militants believed to be responsible for the kidnapping of two coalition soldiers raided the main Shiite district in Baghdad on Sunday.
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Two members of the Iraqi prime ministerâs family have been abducted from their Baghdad home, his spokesman confirmed today. Kidnappers claimed to be holding three relatives.
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 24 -- Gunmen stopped a minibus driving north of Baghdad on Monday and abducted 13 Iraqi civilians inside, Iraqi police reported. The mass kidnapping was a renewed tactic that has grown increasingly rare as violence has ebbed in Iraq.
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The Iraqi government also said that an insurgent responsible for 75 percent of car bombings in Baghdad was captured.