Rummy did it? Do we have kill squads on the ground yet?
A former secret police general who had been in charge of western Baghdad under Saddam Hussein, has been shot and killed at his home in the Iraqi capital. General Khalaf Alussi died under a hail of bullets fired by four men, said Wissam Idan, a building worker at the house in Baghdad's al-Yarmuk area. The general, who died on the spot, headed the feared secret police in the al-Kharkh district on the west bank of the river Tigris. The attack came as US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld visited Baghdad and the northern oil centre of Kirkuk for talks with field commanders on counter-insurgency efforts. |