A senior Iraqi defence ministry official has become the latest government figure to be killed in Baghdad. A day after the attack, a suicide truck bomb claimed the lives of 10 Iraqis near a police station. Issam Jassem Qassim, a director general from the defence ministry, was shot dead outside his home in the south of the capital on Sunday night by three gunmen. His bodyguard was also killed. “He was killed in cold blood by the evil hands of the followers of the former regime,” said Mishal al-Sarraf, an adviser to the defence minister.Full Story
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