Iraqi Gunmen Kill 7 In Gold Heist - Police

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Source: NYT/Reuters

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi gunmen killed at least seven people and wounded ten more on Wednesday in a robbery of gold merchants in a Shi'ite district of northwestern Baghdad, hospital and security officials said.

Iraq's government has warned of a recent spike in crime, including daring daytime bank heists and murders, which some security officers believe is linked to a still-active insurgency in a country just emerging from years of war.

The gunmen stormed some of the gold shops in a market in Shula district, using small arms to kill a few owners then tossing grenades to make their getaway, witnesses said.

"They were shooting everywhere ... there was a lot of mess," Abu Sajad, who was wounded in the leg, said from a hospital.

Blood stained the ground outside some shops, according to a Reuters witness said.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/10/14/world/international-uk-iraq-violence.html

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1. "Iraq's government has warned of a recent spike in crime,"

Have we stopped flying in cargo planes full of $100 bills?

The committee calculated that the $12 billion in cash, most of it in the stacks of $100 bills, weighed 363 tons and had to been flown in on wooden pallets aboard giant C-130 military cargo planes. "Who in their right mind would send 360 tons of cash into a war zone?" Mr. Waxman said. "That’s exactly what our government did."

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