 Gunmen dressed in military fatigues swooped down on the offices of the Iraqi-American Chamber of Commerce and a nearby mobile phone company Monday, seizing 29 people.Also Monday, at least 27 people were killed or found dead in political or sectarian violence across the country, police said. They included four Iraqi soldiers who died in a suicide bombing in northern Iraq -- the first such attack in the Kurdish-ruled province of Dahuk.The kidnappings occurred around noon when armed, uniformed men arrived in 15 four-wheel drive vehicles in the main shopping area of Karradah, an upscale residential district where several prominent Shiite politicians live.One group entered a mobile phone shop and the other went to the next door office of the Iraqi-American Chamber of Commerce,...
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