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Iraq |
Two killed in car boom, local official assassinated |
2008-04-23 |
![]() Major-General Qassem Attah, spokesman for the law enforcement operation, told KUNA that the booby-trapped car explosion also caused damage to nearby private properties, adding that it occurred at an army check point in Masnour area. Meanwhile, a security source said, Hareth Hassan Kazami, an official in Harithiya area, west of Baghdad, was assassinated by masked gunmen. Also another group of masked gunmen attacked several security targets in Baghdad, but Sahwa (Awakening) council members and Iraqi soldiers engaged with the gunmen, arresting four and handed them to a US patrol near the place of the incident. |
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