Confusion over Iraqi guards’ fate
There is confusion about the fate of 50 security firm employees in Baghdad who were reported to have been seized by people wearing police uniforms. Reports said they were either arrested by police or kidnapped by militants posing as police officers on Wednesday. Officials at the Iraqi interior ministry has denied involvement and called the operation a “terrorist act”. The incident followed the discovery of the bodies of 18 men in a van in a western, mainly Sunni area of the city. Full Story