At least 10 tribal leaders who had banded with U.S. troops to fight the Sunni insurgent group al Qaeda in Iraq were kidnapped Sunday morning, the latest in a string of such attacks, fellow tribesmen said. At least one was later found shot to death.The bold daylight kidnapping came as the top U.S. commander in Iraq said the threat from the terror network has been "significantly reduced" in the capital.
A suicide car bomber, meanwhile, struck a busy commercial area in the oil-rich, northern city of Kirkuk, killing at least eight people and injuring 26, police said.
The three Shiite and seven Sunni sheikhs, members of the al-Salam Support Council, a group fighting al Qaeda in Iraq in volatile Diyala province, were taken from their two cars by gunmen as they returned home from a meeting in Baghdad with a government official, tribesmen and police said.
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