BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 8 — In one of the most audacious kidnappings since the American invasion, a group of about 50 people was abducted in a Baghdad raid on Wednesday by gunmen wearing the uniforms of a police paramilitary unit, Iraqi officials and witnesses said.
The raid took place hours after the discovery in Baghdad of at least 24 bodies, all victims of execution-style slayings, Iraqi and American officials said.
The events threatened to aggravate Iraq's sectarian tensions, which have been at a high pitch since the bombing last month of a major Shiite shrine set off an eruption of violence that left hundreds dead before ebbing within a couple days. Since then, the country has feared a slide toward full-blown civil war.
In the abduction, the gunmen stormed a private Sunni Arab-owned security company during the afternoon in a busy middle-class area of eastern Baghdad and carted away the employees in white pickup trucks, the kind used by Shiite-led Interior Ministry police commandos, according to three neighbors who witnessed the raid.
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