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The Murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu

Six years on, troubling questions remain about the Mongolian beauty's death, and who ordered it

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Oct 19, 2012
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Altantuya Shaariibuu, 1978-2006

It will be six years tomorrow since bodyguards for now-Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak dragged the Mongolian translator and party girl Altantuya Shaariibuu out of a car in a patch of jungle near the Kuala Lumpur suburb of Shah Alam. As she begged for her life and apparently that of her unborn child, they knocked h…

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