Gunmen seize 21 men at fake Iraq checkpoint-police

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Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Gunmen seized 21 men from two buses at a fake checkpoint in Iraq's restive Diyala province northeast of Baghdad on Tuesday, police said.

The men were seized close to a mainly Sunni Arab town near Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. Three women were allowed to leave one bus and only men were taken.

However, the U.S. military said it had not received any information about such an incident.

Details of who seized the men and where they had been taken were not immediately available. The buses were travelling south from semi-autonomous Kurdistan in Iraq's north.

The bodies of 15 men who had been shot execution-style were found last week in Diyala, one of Iraq's most violent provinces to where al Qaeda and other Sunni Islamist fighters have moved after security crackdowns last year.

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1. Another 21 dead. The only business that's thriving over there is

the funeral business. (Unless you're father or brother or grandfather or uncle or cousin or friend is unlucky enough to be dumped in a secret mass grave.)