A Kurdish lawmaker was kidnapped in Baghdad and later found dead, a spokesman for the Kurdish bloc in parliament said Friday. Mohammed Ridha Mahmoud, was kidnapped with his driver Thursday afternoon in the northeastern Baghdad neighborhood of Seleikh, said Firyad Rawndouzi, spokesman for the Kurdish bloc. Mahmoud's Jamat Islamia has four seats of the Kurdish bloc's 53 in parliament. Hours after the kidnapping, both bodies were found shot in the head and chest, Rawndouzi said. "This is a cowardly act of terrorism committed by forces against democracy," he exclaimed.
| No telling from this vantage what the impetus was for the killing. Jamat Islami was allied with the Ansar al-Islam hard boyz along the Iranian border prior to the war. Dunno if they've changed sides since, or if this is another organization that's taken the same name. It it's the mullah boyz, no great loss to the civilized world. |