Gunmen Kill Iraq Vice President's Brother

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Gunmen Kill Iraq Vice President's Brother

By ROBERT H. REID
The Associated Press
Sunday, October 30, 2005; 4:12 PM

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Gunmen killed the brother of Iraq's Shiite vice president Sunday and a top trade ministry official escaped assassination in another part of the capital, while the death toll in a major truck bombing the day before rose to 30. A U.S. Marine was fatally injured in another bombing.

Ghalib Abdul-Mahdi, brother of Vice President Adil Abdul-Mahdi, died along with his driver when a vehicle pulled alongside their car on bustling Palestine Street about 7:45 a.m. and gunmen inside opened fire. Ghalib Abdul-Mahdi was en route to Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari's office, where he served as an adviser, two aides to the vice president said.



Relatives mourn near dead bodies after a car bomb exploded in the center of the Shiite village of Huweder, near Baqouba north of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2005, killing 20 people and wounding 30. The blast occurred just before sunset when Muslims would have been breaking their daily Ramadan fast, police said. (AP Photo/Mohammed Adnan) (Mohammed Adnan - AP)

Later Sunday, a top official in the Ministry of Trade, Qais Dawood Hasan, was wounded and two of his bodyguards were killed when gunmen ambushed their convoy in the upscale Baghdad neighborhood of Mansour, scene of several high-profile kidnappings and armed attacks on government officials and foreigners. Five other bodyguards and a bystander were injured, police said.

The U.S. command also announced Sunday that a Marine died of injuries suffered the day before in a roadside bombing near Baghdad. At least 2,016 U.S. military members have died since the Iraq war started in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.


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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/30/AR2005103000110.html

[joemurphy]

1. More evidence that the insurgency is in its death throes! n/t

[ECH1969]

2. Iraq has three VPs

[Faygo Kid]

3. Ugh. What a dirty, nasty, unnecessary war.

Already up to 2,016, eh? Moving fast. We'll see 3,000 by July. Horrific.

[Faygo Kid]

4. error

[Roland99]

5. Rumsfailed said we were making inroads against the insurgency.

Are you implying he was.....WRONG?!




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