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5/30/07 Baghdad
The five men were pulled out of a Finance Ministry
office by about 40 heavily armed men in police uniforms in broad daylight and driven in a convoy of 19 four-wheel-drive vehicles
toward Sadr City, according to the British Foreign office in London and Iraqi officials in the Interior and Finance ministries.
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