Army officers behind Baghdad bank heist: ministryTwo Iraqi army The Iraqi Army is the army of Iraq, active in various forms since the country was formed in the aftermath of World War I. Today, it is a component of the Iraqi Security Forces tasked with assuming responsibility for all Iraqi land-based military operations following the 2003 officers, including a member of the presidential protection unit, were behind a Baghdad bank heist Bank Heist is a maze video game developed by 20th Century Fox for the Atari 2600. Each level in Bank Heist is a maze-like city (similar to Pac-Man). The objective of the game is to rob as many banks as possible while avoiding the police. earlier this week that left eight guards dead, the interior ministry said on Saturday. Spokesman Major General Abdul Karim This article is about the servant to Queen Victoria known as the Munshi. For other individuals of the same name, see Abdul Karim (disambiguation). Hafiz Abdul Karim CIE (1863?-1909), better known as "the Munshi" (variously translated as "teacher" or "clerk" in Hindi), was an Khalaf said three people had been arrested and that security forces were hunting other suspects after Tuesday's 4.8-billion-dinar (3.8 million dollar) robbery, one of Iraq's biggest ever. Those in custody were arrested on Thursday, he said. "The main man who carried out the crime is a captain in the Iraqi army, in the presidential protection brigade," Khalaf told a Baghdad news conference. "His name is Jafar Lazim Eshkaya al-Timimi." He said army Lieutenant Ameen Karim Zeyada al-Fadhly had also been detained de·tain tr.v. de·tained, de·tain·ing, de·tains 1. To keep from proceeding; delay or retard. 2. To keep in custody or temporary confinement: in connection with the heist, and added that "another soldier was arrested and he is under investigation." "There are others being searched for," Khalaf added, telling reporters that the group had carried out the robbery for personal reasons. Eight police guards were found dead in the basement of the bank after the pre-dawn raid A pre-dawn raid refers to a military tactic that involves a group of people, usually of military descent, raiding a location in order to gain an upper hand in combat, retrieve an important document or file, or capture a specific person. . At the time police said the robbers were probably insurgents Insurgents, in U.S. history, the Republican Senators and Representatives who in 1909–10 rose against the Republican standpatters controlling Congress, to oppose the Payne-Aldrich tariff and the dictatorial power of House speaker Joseph G. Cannon. looking to replenish their funds. Police also said it appeared as if the raiders had inside help, as the heist took place a day after a large cash transfer to the bank and no doors or windows were damaged. Khalaf said the money was found in a house in the central Baghdad shopping district of Karrada, the same neighbourhood as the branch of the state-owned Al-Rafidain bank that was robbed. 
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