Three Lebanese Shot Dead In Baghdad: Foreign Ministry

BEIRUT, Sept 10 (AFP) - Three Lebanese, one of them a woman, were shot dead "in mysterious circumstances" in Baghdad Friday morning, the foreign ministry announced in Beirut.
Businessmen Georges Badine and Karim Khoury were gunned down with Khoury's wife at the home of one of them, the reports reaching the ministry said.
The two men ran a food import business with an Iraqi associate, which they had set up just a few months ago.
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.
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.
At least 15 Lebanese are known to have been abducted in Iraq.
Most have been released after a ransom was paid but one, telecommunications worker Hussein Olayyan, had his throat cut by kidnappers in June.