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| Iraq |
| Gunmen attack Omani embassy |
| 2005-11-11 |
| Gunmen opened fire Friday on the compound of the Embassy of Oman, killing two people and wounding two others, police and hospital officials said. It was the second fatal shooting involving employees of Arab embassies in Baghdad this week. Friday's attack occurred at about 6:10 p.m. at the embassy compound in the Mansour district of western Baghdad. Two people, including an Iraqi policeman and an embassy employee, were killed and two policemen were wounded, police Maj. Falah al-Mohammedawi said. Police sealed off the area after the attack and would not let journalists approach. On Wednesday, a driver for the Sudanese Embassy was shot dead in the same part of the city, and last month two employees of the Moroccan Embassy were abducted on a highway in western Iraq. Al-Qaeda in Iraq claimed it grabbed the Moroccans and sentenced them to death. But there is no indication the threat has been carried out. In July, al-Qaeda in Iraq claimed responsibility for kidnapping and killing three Arab diplomats – two Algerians and one Egyptian. The terrorist group said it carried out the attacks to encourage Arab and Islamic countries to sever ties with the U.S.-backed Iraqi government. The authenticity of the claim could not be verified. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #1 Is there any country these guys like? |
| Posted by: plainslow 2005-11-11 13:22 |