Bandits Nab $550,000 in Iraq Heist
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Robbers dressed as police commandos hijacked an armored truck in eastern Baghdad on Wednesday, bound and gagged its guards, and made off with about $550,000 in Iraqi currency, police said
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Five Canadian men were arrested after  cocaine worth A$35 million ($26 million) was found hidden  inside computer equipment, in what was believed to be  Australia's fifth-largest illegal drugs seizure, police said on  Thursday.
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Police hunting the raiders who stole an estimated Â£27million from a Belfast bank are convinced they had inside help - and possibly backing from one of Northern Ireland&#39;s terrorist groups.
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Gunmen in camouflage uniforms kidnapped about 30 Iraqis in Baghdad on Thursday and the new U.S. operational commander said more needed to be done to curb violence in the Iraqi capital.
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Police in the North have confirmed that a total of Â£22m was taken in the raid on the Northern Bank in Belfast on Monday. However, the gang may find it extremely difficult to dispose of the proceeds of the
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American forces are gearing up for a major operation in the insurgent bastion of Fallujah, where up to 5,000 Islamic militants, Saddam Hussein loyalists and common criminals
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The U.S. government will pay $5.8 billion to help Iraq expand further its army and police force, which are deemed too small for its security needs
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Gunmen dressed in military fatigues burst into the offices of the Iraqi-American Chamber of Commerce and a nearby mobile phone company Monday, seizing 26 people in a daylight raid in a mostly Shiite area of the capital.
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Three U.S. Army Reserve officers and two U.S. civilians have been charged with taking or helping funnel more than $1 million in cash, sports cars, jewelry and other items as bribes to rig bids on Iraqi reconstruction contracts, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
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BAGHDAD -- With car bombs, assassinations, and raids on police stations, insurgents killed at least 54 people, including Iraqi policemen, and said they executed eight Iraqi employees of an American security company.
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Iraqi police were ambushed Tuesday night in western Baghdad as raiding a house where they suspected militants were sheltered and 28 people were killed, including seven policemen, police said Wednesday.
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The US offers a $5m (Â£2.6m) reward each for the capture of two Islamic militants accused of a string of attacks.
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Police in Northern Ireland investigating this week&#39;s $50 million bank robbery have searched the properties of several IRA members.
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BAGHDAD In the single deadliest ambush of the Iraq insurgency, guerrillas dressed as security officers executed 49 freshly trained Iraqi soldiers on Saturday evening on a remote road in eastern Iraq as the unarmed soldiers were going home on leave, Iraqi
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US and Iraqi forces are holding about 600 suspected insurgents captured in security operations south of the capital, Baghdad, in the past five months, the US military said.
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BAGHDAD, May 27 -- U.S. forces raided an al-Qaeda in Iraq hideout northeast of Baghdad on Sunday and rescued 41 people who had been kidnapped by the group, some as long as four months ago, a U.S. military spokesman said.
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The outlawed Irish Republican Army denied involvement in a bank heist in downtown Belfast that netted 22 million pounds (31 million euros, 42 million dollars), the Press Association news agency quoted a source close to the movement as saying.