Pro US mayor shot dead

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Pro-U.S. Mayor shot dead



BAGHDAD JULY 16. The pro-American Mayor of the "Sunni Triangle" city of Hadithah was shot and killed on Wednesday in escalating violence in Iraq that also took the life of a U.S. soldier travelling in a supply convoy and an eight-year-old Iraqi child in a separate attack on the U.S. forces guarding a Baghdad bank.

The U.S. military confirmed a report by Al-Jazeera that Mohammed Nayil al-Jurayfi's car was shot at by unidentified attackers as he drove with one of his sons through the city, 240 km northwest of Baghdad. The son was also killed, Al-Jazeera and the military said.

Al-Jazeera said residents of the city had accused the Mayor of collaborating with coalition forces. The Qatar-based broadcaster said Mr. al-Jurayfi's car caught fire after the attack.

The attack was certain to have a chilling effect on other Iraqi officials sympathetic to the Americans. One of the members of the newly inaugurated Iraqi Governing Council, handpicked by the U.S. administrator of Iraq, hails from Hadithah. Samir Shakir Mahmoud, the Council member, is a Sunni but was a leading member of the opposition to Saddam Hussein.














http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/stories/2003071703911400.htm

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