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By Michael Hirsh and Maziar Bahari
Newsweek
Monday 19 February 2007 Issue
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A second Navy carrier group is steaming toward the Persian Gulf, and NEWSWEEK has learned that a third carrier will
likely follow.
Jalal Sharafi was carrying a video game, a gift for his daughter, when he found himself surrounded. On that chilly
Sunday morning, the second secretary at the Iranian Embassy in Baghdad had driven himself to the commercial district of
Arasat Hindi to checkout the site for a new Iranian bank. He had ducked into a nearby electronics store with his
bodyguards, and as they emerged four armored cars roared up and disgorged at least 20 gunmen wearing bulletproof vests
and Iraqi National Guard uniforms. They flashed official IDs, and manhandled Sharafi into one car. Iraqi police gave
chase, guns blazing. They shot up one of the other vehicles, capturing four assailants who by late last week had yet to
be publicly identified. Sharafi and the others disappeared.
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