BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: An Iraqi Civil Defense Colonel has been killed when a group of unknown gunmen opened silencer-gun fire on him in west Baghdad on Saturday, a Baghdad security source said."An Officer in the Iraqi Civil Defense Directorate was shot dead by unknown gunmen, using silencer-guns, who attacked him while driving his car in west Baghdad's so-called "Police Tunnel," whilst the attackers escaped to an unknown destination.
Baghdad and a number of other Iraqi cities have witnessed a security deterioration, reflected by attacks against Iraqi Army and police officers, Parliament members, state officials, judges and university professors, by unknown gunmen, using silencer guns, explosive belts and explosives.
Doubts are spreading about the relationship between the armed men with security forces, involved in such incidents, whilst part of the assassinations were charged to have been carried out, being part of political assassinations, according to observers in Baghdad.