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09-01-05, 16:23
Party leader assassinated in Iraq
UPI - Sunday, January 09, 2005


Date: Sunday, January 09, 2005 8:09:04 AM EST

BAGHDAD, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- The manager of the Iraqi National Accord party, headed by interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, was assassinated Sunday near his home in Baghdad.

Sources close to the party said masked gunmen tailed the car of General Jassem al-Obaidi, who was accompanied by his daughter, and riddled him with bullets.

They said his daughter, who was on her way to school, was seriously injured and was reported in critical condition in a Baghdad hospital.

The assassination of al-Obaidi comes three weeks before the general elections and is part of a series of assassinations in Iraq that has killed hundreds of political, security and military officials.

Armed men Saturday abducted Ali Ghaleb, the mayor of the northern Salaheddine province, and Qahtan Hammadi, an aide to the province's governor, in southern Baghdad.

Iraqi security sources said the authorities were still searching for their whereabouts.

Meanwhile, the U.S. military in Iraq said an American soldier was killed when an explosive device blew up during a patrol in a Baghdad street. No further details were provided.

Two Iraqi police were injured by stray bullets from a U.S. military patrol Saturday night after a roadside bomb exploded in southern Baghdad.

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