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| Iraq |
| Iraqi VP's brother killed |
| 2005-10-31 |
| A brother of one of Iraq’s two vice presidents was shot and killed on Sunday on his way to work in Baghdad, officials said. A top Trade Ministry official was wounded and two of his bodyguards were killed in a separate attack, police said. Nine Iraqi civilians also died in a series of insurgent attacks in Baghdad and other areas. Ghalib Abdul-Mahdi, brother of Vice President Adil Abdul-Mahdi, was gunned down along with his driver at 7:45 am while travelling to work at the office of Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, two aides to the vice president said. The aides spoke on condition of anonymity, saying they were not authorised to talk on the record to the media. Ghalib Abdul-Mahdi served as an adviser to the prime minister. One of Iraq’s vice presidents is a Shia and the other is a Sunni. Adil Abdul-Mahdi is a Shia. An Internet statement posted on an extreme Islamist Web site claimed that al-Qaeda in Iraq had killed Ghalib Abdul-Mahdi. The statement’s authenticity could not be independently verified. In another part of Baghdad, four gunmen ambushed a convoy carrying Qais Dawood Hasan, an undersecretary at the Trade Ministry, after it left his office in the upscale Mansoor neighbourhood, police said. Hasan was wounded, two of his guards killed, and six other people injured, five guards and an Iraqi passer-by, said police 1st Lt Thair Mahmoud and Dr Mohanad Jawad at Yarmouk Hospital. On Sunday morning, a roadside bomb destroyed one of several oil tanker trucks driving on a main road in south Baghdad, sending a fire ball up over the area and killing the two men inside, said police Capt Ibrahim Abdul-Ridha. Four civilian passers-by were wounded. In Samarra, 95-km north of Baghdad, a roadside bomb killed a farmer on his tractor and seriously wounded two other civilians, said police Capt Laith Mohammed. On Saturday night, US troops backed by helicopters and a jet plane attacked insurgents planning an ambush near the Taji air base about 20-km north of Baghdad, killing six militants and wounding and capturing five others, the US command said. The fighting occurred after American troops saw insurgents moving along a canal toward a commonly used ambush site, the US military said in a statement. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #1 And we jailed our own soldiers for making prison life miserable for these pieces of fecal matter? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2005-10-31 08:37 |