[Khaleej Times] A senior Iraqi leader of the Iraqi Islamic party was killed in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi, security sources told the German Press Agency dpa on Monday. The source said that a sticky bomb put under the car of Jalil Matar went off as he was coming out of the Ramadi hospital on Sunday evening.
Leaders of the Sunni parties, including the Iraqi Islamic Party, the largest Sunni party in Iraq, are a constant target for assassination by military groups operating in Iraq. On June 12, Harith al-Obeidi, the leader of the leader of the Iraqi Accord Front, Iraq's largest coalition of Sunni political parties, was shot dead as he was leaving a mosque where he led the Friday prayers in the western Baghdad neighbourhood of Yarmuk.
Separately, two Iraqi policemen died on Monday when a bomb went off near a security check point in Mosul, 400 kilometres north of Baghdad. Two further policemen were wounded. |