- (AFP) -- Three Lebanese, one of them a woman, were shot
dead "in mysterious circumstances" in Baghdad on Friday morning,
the Foreign Ministry announced in Beirut.
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- Businessmen Georges Badine and Karim Khoury were gunned
down as well as Mr Khoury's wife, at one of the victim's homes, reports
reaching the Ministry said.
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- The two men ran a food import business with an Iraqi
associate, which they had set up just a few months ago.
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- In the aftermath of last year's US-led invasion, many
hundreds of Lebanese flocked to Iraq to do business or take jobs in the
booming security industry.
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- But since insurgents began kidnapping foreigners in
April,
many have left, spurred on by government ban imposed in July on Lebanese
working for security contractors in Iraq.
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- At least 15 Lebanese are known to have been abducted
in Iraq.
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- Most have been released after a ransom was paid, but
one, telecommunications worker Hussein Olayyan, had his throat cut by
kidnappers
in June.
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