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• US troops detain Iranian businessman in Iraq

  - 2007-09-20

  SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq AFP — US forces arrested an Iranian businessman on Thursday at a hotel in Sulaimaniyah, a majority Kurdish city in northern Iraq, a regional government official told AFP. The businessman, identified only as Farhadi, was detained at around 4.00 am midnight GMT after US troops raided the...

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• US officer charged with bribery over Iraq contracts

  - 2007-08-23

  NEW YORK AFP — A US Army captain has been arrested in New York on charges of accepting kickbacks in return for steering lucrative supply contracts for the US military in Iraq, prosecutors said Thursday. Austin Key, 27, was arrested late Wednesday and charged with one count of bribery...

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• British MP's Iraq campaign received illicit cash: watchdog

  - 2007-06-08

  LONDON AFP — A campaign against sanctions on Iraq set up by controversial British lawmaker George Galloway received improper donations from a Jordanian businessman, a watchdog report said Friday. And Galloway, who hit the headlines when he rebuffed corruption allegations at a United States Senate hearing in 2005, may...

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• Family of Turkish hostage implore Iraqi kidnappers to spare him

  - 2005-06-08

  ANKARA AFP — Relatives of a Turkish businessman held hostage in Iraq pleaded with his kidnappers to spare his life and vowed that he would never return to Iraq if set free. "We implore these people in the name of Allah," Ahmet Musluoglu, brother of Ali Musluoglu, told AFP....

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• Iraq counter-insurgency chief gunned down

  - 2005-05-23

  BAGHDAD AFP — An insurgent killer squad shot dead the commander of Iraq's new counter-insurgency headquarters as he drove to work in Baghdad, as US and Iraqi troops conducted a massive sweep for insurgents. Suicide bombers attacked a US base in central Iraq and a town hall in the...

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• US Iraq hostage an award-winning small businessman from the Midwest

  - 2005-04-13

  WASHINGTON AFP — Jeffrey Ake, the US businessman kidnapped in Iraq, runs a modest but much-praised bottling equipment business which he founded in his garage 10 years ago and began supplying equipment to Iraq just six months after the US overthrew the Saddam Hussein regime. From the small railroad...

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• Romanian hostages in Iraq freed: reports

  - 2005-04-05

  BUCHAREST AFP — Three Romanian journalists held hostage in Iraq since last week have been freed, two private Romanian television stations reported, quoting official sources. The information could not be immediately confirmed. Journalist Marie-Jeanne Ion and her cameraman Eduard Ohanesian from Prima TV and Sorin Miscoci of the...

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• Eight dead in Iraq unrest as parties thrash out coalition deal

  - 2005-03-07

  BAGHDAD AFP — Eight Iraqis were killed in attacks on security forces and a Jordanian businessman reported kidnapped as the main factions moved to finalise a deal on a new governing coalition more than five weeks after historic elections. Gunmen attacked an Iraqi army checkpoint with grenades and machine...

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• Turkish businessman freed after held hostage in Iraq

  - 2005-02-15

  ANKARA AFP — A Turkish businessman, Kahraman Sadikoglu, has been freed after almost two months as a hostage in Iraq and is expected home on Tuesday, the Turkish foreign ministry said. Sadikoglu, who was seized on December 19, was freed late on Monday in the south of the country,...

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• Turkish businessman back home after release in Iraq

  - 2005-02-15

  ISTANBUL AFP — A Turkish businessman, Kahraman Sadikoglu, reportedly arrived back in Turkey, a day after he was freed in Iraq after almost two months as a hostage. Sadikoglu, who flew into Istanbul airport abroad a private plane, appeared to be in good health, the Anatolia news agency said....

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