Iraq: Gunmen Kill Interior Ministry Official

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Source: Associated Press

Iraq: gunmen kill interior ministry official

By SAMEER YACOUB – 2 hours ago

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials say an interior ministry brigadier has been killed in a drive-by shooting in western Baghdad.

A police officer and an interior ministry official say gunmen killed Brig. Adel Abbas and his driver as they drove to work Sunday morning. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to the media.

Abbas worked in the ministry's criminal investigation department.

In another attack, police and hospital officials say a finance ministry director was seriously wounded when a bomb exploded in his car, also in western Baghdad.

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[Shardik]

1. With the current state of affairs in Iraq today I have to wonder

if it was US that did it.

[Chico]

2. Too, so sad, such a pity, what a shame.

Yep! - That "Surge" to control the secterian violence is working like a charm.

Chico Brisbane

http://chicobrisbane.blogspot.com/

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3. Has the 30,000 surge left Iraq or are they still there?

[cal04]

4. Eight killed in Iraq attacks

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24382444-12377,00.html

INSURGENTS killed at least eight people and wounded dozens in a spate of attacks across Iraq today, including two suicide car bombings in two northern cities, security officials said.

A bomber slammed his explosives-filled car into a checkpoint in the northern oil city of Kirkuk where a group of youngsters had gathered to be taken to a police recruitment centre, said local deputy police chief Major General Torhan Yussef.

"Two people were killed in the attack and 24 were wounded," he said.

Another suicide bomber detonated his explosives-filled vehicle near a police building in the northern city of Mosul and killed two people, including a policeman, a local police officer said.

Forty people were also wounded in the attack, including 15 policemen, he said.