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| Influential Iraqi Sunni leader accuses government forces of attacking his offices |
| 2007-10-25 |
| (KUNA) -- Iraqi government troops have attacked offices of Adnan Al-Dulaimi's General Council of the People of Iraq in the capital wounding three people, the party said in a statement released on Wednesday. A force of the Government Guard attacked, late on Tuesday, the offices in Al-Adel district in western Baghdad, wounding two employees and the official spokesman of the General Council, Muhannad Al-Isawi, the statement said. Al-Dulaimi, leader of the largest Sunni political grouping in the country, condemned in remarks to KUNA the attack and accused government forces of threatening to assassinate him. He also charged that these forces were behind an attempt to kill him when his motorcade was targeted with rockets and machine-gun fire. Gunmen had assassinated the political advisor of the influential Sunni leader in in western Baghdad. Sheikh Ahmad Khalil Al-Mashhadani was gunned down near the district of Al-Amiriah in the western sector of the city last Thursday, according to a statement released by Al-Dulaimi's party on Monday. The conference is part of the coalition, the Iraqi Concord Front, headed by Al-Dulaimi. The front has 44 out of the 275 parliamentary seats. |
| Posted by:Fred |