Pro-US politician assassinated in Basra (Iraq setback)

[papau]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1089281,00.html

Pro-US politician assassinated in Basra

Associated Press
Thursday November 20, 2003

The US-led security mission in Iraq today suffered a setback when assassins killed a pro-US politician in Basra.In a further incident in Kirkuk, four people died in an explosion at the offices of a Kurdish political party.

The Assyrian Democratic Movement said that Sargoun Nanou Murado, its representative on the municipal council, was killed after being abducted on his way to work on Tuesday.

His body was found yesterday, it said in a statement. The group, which represents Iraq's Assyrian minority, is represented on the country's 25-seat governing council.

He is the second person to have worked with coalition authorities in southern Iraq to be assassinated this week. In the town of Diwaniyah on Tuesday, gunmen killed the education ministry's director-general for that province. <snip>

Also today, details of another attack aimed at a US ally emerged. Hospital sources said that two people died when a car bomb exploded outside the home of Sheik Amer Ali Suleiman, a tribal leader in Ramadi. Mr Suleiman is a leader of the Duleim tribe, one of the largest Sunni Muslim tribes in Iraq. He is a member of the city council and is close to the US administration.<snip>

[leftchick]

1. guess "operation iron hammer" did not have the right effect...

I think the US should give up the "sunni triangle" angle. It is fucked up all over Iraq as has been obvious for months now.

[papau]

2. Just a very large "Sunni" triangle that starts in Malaysia

:-(