All Blog Posts from Investigative Round-Up

CNN:
A former vice president of the Blackwater private security company said he was "unaware of any plot or guidance for Blackwater to bribe Iraqi officials" as rage erupted over the killings of 17 civilians by the company's security guards more than two years ago. (read the article)

The LA Times:
When thieves shot dead eight guards and made off with $4.8 million in one of Iraq's biggest-ever bank heists last week, fingers quickly pointed at the Sunni-led insurgency. (read the article)

BBC:
The Netherlands has returned to Iraqi ownership dozens of ancient artefacts that were stolen from the country after the US-led invasion of 2003.
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Washington Post:
Two Americans arrested this month during an Iraqi investigation into the killing of an American contractor were transferred to a U.S. military facility at the request of Iraqi officials, the U.S. Embassy said Sunday.
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The London Times:
Two British companies have been linked to a multi million-pound fraud concerning a “ghost” delivery of equipment to Iraq, as part of a US investigation into how billions of dollars in reconstruction funds went missing.
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New York Times:
Iraq’s main anticorruption watchdog has no shortage of cases, as its new report makes clear: embezzlement of $80 million; tampering with government tea imports; the theft of 50 Italian-made Beretta pistols; procuring forged Ph.D.’s; and scores of other crimes.
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AP:
A former soldier charged with raping and killing a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and murdering her family went on trial Monday, with prosecutors saying that he set the girl's body ablaze after shooting her several times.
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AP: A U.S. Army medic was convicted of murder Friday for his involvement in the execution-style slayings of four bound and blindfolded Iraqi detainees shot in the back of the head in the spring of 2007. (Read the article)

Reuters:
When U.S. President Barack Obama ordered the closure of the Guantanamo prison camp, one poor Iraqi family thought it would soon get back its son.

But even after it found out that U.S. officials sent Hassan Abdul Hadi back to Iraq weeks ago, the whereabouts of the Shi'ite Muslim from Iraq's south, who somehow ended up being suspected by the Americans of terrorism, remains unknown.
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BBC News:
Iraqi security forces say they have captured leading Sunni militant Tha'ir Kadhim Sraiwi.
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