 On March 13 , 2008 , it was reported that the Archbishop 's body had been found buried in a shallow grave near Mosul . Officials of the Chaldean Church in Iraq said they had received a call telling them where the body was buried . Reports over the cause of death were contradictory . An official of the morgue in Mosul said the archbishop , who had health problems , including high blood pressure and diabetes , might have died of natural causes . Police at the Mosul morgue said the Archbishop " appeared to have been dead a week and his body bore no bullet wounds " . Nineveh Deputy Governor Khasro Goran stated that when relatives and authorities went to the location specified by the kidnappers and found the body , it had " gunshot wounds " . The identity of those behind his murder is disputed . Some Assyrians within the community believe Al @-@ Qaida and other Sunni Arab factions were behind the murder . Other Christians in Mosul , including the archbishop ’ s family , believe that it was the Kurds who ordered his assassination . Kurdish authorities ordered an investigation and subsequently made several arrests , though their reports have failed to convince the family . 
