Hostages at Church in Iraq After Stock Exchange Attack

I think the news is confused.

The BBC sort of mentions some account of a stock exchange matter first, before occupying the church, but the CNN says that the original plan or action of the Iraquis, Al Quaeda or not, was storming the Bagdad Stock exchange. When police followed and ensued, they ran to a nearby Catholic church that was having mass and occupied and tried to negotiate from there.

Which is exact, I don't know, but there is a different spin from attacking a stock exchange as part of a plan, and attacking a church. Stating it was just an attack on a church would incite concerns of a religious attack but it sounds like this is just where they ended up, and then, to negotiate, they said they wanted to exchange Iraqui prisoners for Catholic ones.

Possibly, it was symbolic for them to go to the Stock Exchange first. I mean, in some ways, it could be a message, if they weren't simply forced to take cover in a church.

Stock exchange to hostage exchange...hmm.

It might not have been Al Quaeda either.