Iraq shuts universities after mass abduction
14th Nov 2006, 15:18 GMT
Several dozen employees of a government research institute were kidnapped in Baghdad on Tuesday in a methodical daylight raid that prompted the minister of higher education to berate Parliament and shut the nation's universities until security improves.
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