Oil workers kidnapped in Basra

Four employees of Athens-based Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC) are still missing, four days after being kidnapped in Basra."They were stopped by a fake military checkpoint," said Ali al-Maliki, the head of the security and defense committee in the Basra Provincial Council, "and have been taken to an unknown location."The workers, who operated out of the company's pipeline fabrication plant near the Rumaila oil field, were taken from their car along a main road near a village calle...