Intelligence officer shot dead in Baghdad
16/02/2005 - 08:27:27Gunmen shot dead an Interior Ministry intelligence officer in a southern Baghdad neighbourhood today, police said.
Attackers opened fire on 1st Lt. Ghazi Hoshi as he was getting into his car to go to work in Dora, said a police spokesman.
In other violence, assailants yesterday killed Jassim Mohammed Mousa al-Daraji, a former municipal official and ex-Baath Party member in the eastern slum of Sadr City.
And in another attack, in the northern city of Mosul, gunmen seriously wounded a police colonel and killed his driver.
Kidnappings, assassinations and bombings have become frequent in insurgency-plagued Iraq since the United States led the 2003 invasion to topple Saddam Hussein.
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