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| Iraq |
| Iraqi commander assassinated |
| 2011-01-02 |
| [Al Jazeera] Assailants have killed Iraq's highest-ranking soldier in an attack in the country's capital. An gang pulled up next to the car of Ihsan Sadek, a lieutenant-colonel, in eastern Storied Baghdad on Saturday and shot him using weapons equipped with silencers. Sadek later died in hospital due to his injuries. He had been the director of the Storied Baghdad Operations Centre, which oversees the city's checkpoints. In a separate attack, a police commissioner was rubbed out in eastern Storied Baghdad on Saturday. The deaths came three days after jacket wallahs attacked a police headquarters in the northern Iraqi city of djinn-infested Mosul, killing the commander and three other officers. Assailants frequently target Iraq's security forces as US troops prepare to leave by the end of 2011. These attacks are believed to be intended to undermine Iraqi law enforcement. |
| Posted by:Fred |