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Shiite politician assassinated in Baghdad
A prominent Shiite Islamist politician was shot dead by gunmen in Baghdad on Saturday.
- Agencies
- Published: 00:00 November 19, 2006
Baghdad: A prominent Shiite Islamist politician was shot dead by gunmen in Baghdad on Saturday.
Ali Al Adhadh of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), was killed with his wife as he drove in the mainly Sunni west Baghdad, police and SCIRI member Adnan Al Obeidi said.
Adhadh was a member of SCIRI's Shura council, the central decision-making body of the party which was founded in Iran in the 1980s to oppose Saddam Hussain and is now the biggest party in Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki's coalition. He had been due to leave as ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva.
A recent surge of kidnappings by men in uniform has stoked fears of infiltration of Iraq's security forces by members of both sectarian militias and criminal groups.
During a visit to Vietnam, US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice said that Iraqis "have one future and that is a future together. They don't have a future if they try to stay apart."
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