A city council member in the restive Iraqi town of Fallujah and his nephew were wounded Wednesday by gunmen who sprayed their car with automatic gunfire, the nephew said. Sheikh Hisham Al-Alussi, who is also an Imam at a local mosque, was returning home with his nephew, Mohammad Taghlob, when the gunmen opened fire, said Taghlob, who was wounded in the leg.
| Shooting up a holy man? That's never happened before, has it? |
"Men in masks, who were travelling in a grey Opel, opened fire while my uncle was getting out of the car," he added. Alussi was seriously wounded, doctors said. He was known as a moderate religious leader who never attacked the US-led forces occupying the country in his sermons or called for a Jihad against them.
| Y'don't think that might have had something to do with the Bad Guys trying to bump him off, do you? |
Police have launched a search for the attackers. |