Arab Leader Shot Dead in Iraq City of Kirkuk

[leftchick]

http://www.aina.org/news/20050528115623.htm

KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) -- Gunmen have shot dead a former member of Kirkuk's city council, Iraqi police said on Saturday, the latest killing of a local official in a city where tensions between Kurds and Arabs run high.

Naif Sabhan al-Jibouri, an Arab tribal leader and former council member, was shot dead outside his home late on Friday, police colonel Adil Zain al-Abdein said.

Jibouri was said to have developed good ties with Kurdish officials on the council, which Kirkuk's deputy mayor suggested might have been a reason for the killing.

Over the past two years, more than a dozen local leaders -- including Kurds, Arabs and Turkish-speaking Turkmen -- have been killed in Kirkuk, a city that draws wealth from huge nearby oil resources and which is claimed by all three groups.

[Gyre]

1. That place is getting ready to blow!!!

I guess the CIA (pre-Cheney visits) was right in their assessment after all. BTW, I'm not saying anything good about the CIA. The CIA now operating since Porter Goss is NOT, the same agency.

Gyre