Iraq leader vows to end corruption amid scandal

2009/05/27 14:43:54 @Reuters: International News

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq has launched a campaign to arrest almost 1,000 officials for corruption, the government said on Wednesday, after the trade minister resigned amid claims family members made millions in kickbacks from sugar purchases. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=_pOIPdjsqCs:xdQJFe0GEak:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=_pOIPdjsqCs:xdQJFe0GEak:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=_pOIPdjsqCs:xdQJFe0GEak:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=_pOIPdjsqCs:xdQJFe0GEak:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=_pOIPdjsqCs:xdQJFe0GEak:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/_pOIPdjsqCs" height="1" width="1"/
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