Gunmen Kill Iraqi Judge; Hostage Released

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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen on Wednesday killed a judge whose name once was on a list of Sunni Arab candidates to join a parliamentary committee to draft Iraq's new constitution, officials said. Separately, a Filipino hostage was released after almost eight months in captivity.

Jassim al-Issawi, whose candidacy to join the 55-member committee was later dropped, was also a law professor at Baghdad University and the former editor-in-chief of Al-Siyadah newspaper, said Salih al-Mutlak, secretary general of the Sunni National Dialogue Council

Al-Issawi, 51, and his son were killed in Baghdad's northwestern Shula neighborhood, said Abdul Sattar Jawad, current editor of Al-Siyadah.

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Filipino accountant Robert Tarongoy, who worked for a Saudi company that does catering for the Iraqi army, has been released, Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo announced Wednesday. Tarongoy was kidnapped on Nov. 1 along with American Roy Hallums from their office in Baghdad after a gunbattle killed an Iraqi guard and an attacker. Hallums' fate is not known.

more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050622/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq;_