Iraqi bomb defuser killed by insurgents

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Iraqi bomb defuser killed by insurgents
Government officials think the explosives expert was targeted because of his job.
USA TODAY

He was once flung back from the force of a roadside bomb that detonated prematurely, killing a colleague but slightly wounding him.
In July, he carefully defused an explosives vest worn by a would-be suicide bomber outside the Green Zone, the fortified area housing U.S. and some Iraqi government offices in Baghdad.

He earned the nickname "Robot" from U.S. advisers for his dogged disarming of insurgents' bombs and was profiled in USA TODAY in July.

Asaad, an explosives expert with the Interior Ministry, was killed last week, not by bomb shrapnel but from a gunshot wound to the gut.

Gunmen ambushed him down the road from his home in southern Baghdad on Aug. 30. Officials are investigating the incident but believe Asaad was targeted by insurgents because of his job, said Brig. Hussein Muhssin, his supervisor.

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kill the collaborators, isolate the enemy.