Today's version of "Choose your Next Step to Civil War" brings us the end of higher eduction in Iraq:
BAGHDAD, Nov. 14 - Several dozen employees of a university office were kidnapped here today, in a methodical daylight raid that prompted the minister of higher education to berate Parliament and threaten to shut the nation's universities until security improves.
Estimates of the number of kidnapped varied widely, with a spokesman for the Ministry of the Interior putting the number between 30 and 40 and the department of higher education saying that between 70 and 150 men were missing. An interior ministry spokesman said that he did not think the number of vehicles reportedly involved could have carried off both the gunmen - by some counts, as many as 80 took part - and the number of victims described by education officials.
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As news of the raid spread, Mr. Thiab [the Minister of Eduction in the Iraqi Cabinet] went to the Parliament building and angrily interrupted a nationally televised session to denounce lawmakers for failing to prevent what he called "a terrorist act." He said universities would be shut until the situation becomes safer.
Well, I guess you really don't need education if the mullahs are going to run the place.
Posted by baltar at November 14, 2006 11:55 AM | TrackBack | Posted to Iraq