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Baghdad Journal
Sunnis Being Chased Out of Baghdad
Businessmen Singled Out Systematically
By IBRAHIM MUSTAFA 02/03/2007 6:37 PM ET
A Sunni man who owns a super market in Baghdad Al-Jadida was threatened and he was forced to flee to Amman. He handed his supermarket to his uncle and four of his cousins. Then his for relatives were kidnapped. The kidnappers called him in Amman and demanded $100,000. He negotiated with them and finally they agreed to take $50,000. Someone told him to check the morgues before he delivered the money to the kidnappers. He did, and he found the tortured bodies of the four in the Baghdad morgue. The kidnappers called him and asked for the money. He asked them why he should give them the money after they killed his uncle and his cousins. They were furious at him and told him that he and other Sunnis will never live in Iraq again. I know this guy (not personally) because his supermarket is famous in Baghdad. He is also a friend of my brother in law, whose family owns a factory in Iraq which they are about to close because they too were forced to leave to Amman. My brother in law told me also that one of their Sunni guards was taken in Za'faraniya three days ago. Yesterday, his family found his body in a plastic bag just in front of his house. The militias had told him to leave the area, but he couldn't because he didn't have any place else to go.
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