Gunmen kill Shiite official in northern Iraq
10/5/2006 17:20
Unknown gunmen assassinated a local leader of a Shiite leading
organization in Dujail town in northern Iraq, a police source from Salahudin
province said.
"Armed men in two cars opened fire late Tuesday at Ibrahim al-
Khazraji, leader of Badr organization in Dujail, while he was travelling on the
main road outside the town of Dujail," the provincial police source told Xinhua
on condition of anonymity.
Badr Organization is part of the Shiite United
Iraqi Alliance which won Iraq's elections last December.
Badr was the
military wing of the leading Shiite party of the Supreme Council of Islamic
Revolution in Iraq, which officially turned into a political organization and
changed its name into Badr Organization. However, many Iraqis believe that it is
still militia.
Dujail, some 60 km north of Baghdad, was the scene of a failed
assassination attempt against the ousted president Saddam Hussein in 1982.
On
Wednesday, two more Iraqi officials were also killed in separate attacks by
unknown gunmen in southern and northern Baghdad neighborhoods.
Different
militant groups frequently attack Iraqi security forces and government
employees, as sectarian violence and power vacuum prevailed in the war-torn
country after three years of US- led occupation.
Xinhua News
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