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Archive Home > 2009 > September > 03 > Bank robbery case shows highs, lows of Iraqi justice

Bank robbery case shows highs, lows of Iraqi justice

By Rod Nordland and Riyadh Mohammed / The Bulletin
September 3, 2009

BAGHDAD — The gang of robbers did not have to worry about the police because, in that neighborhood, they were the police, many of them bodyguards for one of the nation’s most powerful men, Vice President Adel Abdul Mahdi.

Their plan was brutally simple and brazenly stupid: They tied up eight....

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