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Iraq
Two ministry officials killed, bodies found in Iraq
2007-11-06
BAGHDAD - Two officials from IraqÂ’s finance ministry were shot dead in a restive area in west Baghdad on Sunday while at another flashpoint the police discovered nine bodies, according to the Voices of Iraq news agency VOI.

‘The bodies of Qutayba Badr Al Din Mahmud, who is a consultant at the finance ministry, and Osama Kazem Muhammad, an employee at the ministry, were found Sunday morning in a car in Jamya district in west Baghdad,’ security sources were quoted by VOI as saying. Jamya district is a hotbed of violence in west Baghdad.
Posted by:Steve White

#4  Tax collectors?
Posted by: Jack is Back!   2007-11-06 08:42  

#3  So the remaining question is whether these guys were killed for threatening to stop the stealing or for trying to steal from others who had already stolen it or for stealing it for the wrong boss. I'm seeing 'The Godfather' here.
Posted by: Glenmore   2007-11-06 07:39  

#2  Both inside and outside => Corruption connection would be my best bet.
Posted by: twobyfour   2007-11-06 00:26  

#1  The only question remaining is whether this was an inside or outside job.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-11-06 00:15  

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