Official gunned down outside Baghdad
14/11/2004 - 11:05:31A prominent official of the Iraqi Communist Party was gunned down with two of his bodyguards outside of Baghdad, a party official said today.
Sadoun Mohammed was returning home from the northern city of Kirkuk when armed men ambushed his car, opening fire yesterday evening, said party official Amar Abdul-Hussein.
Iraq’s Communist Party is part of the interim government of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi. Culture Minister Mufeed al-Jazaeri is a party member.
Banned and persecuted under Saddam Hussein, it has been critical of Allawi’s close ties with the United States.
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