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Norwegian woman shot dead
OSLO: A Norwegian woman married to an Iraqi
Kurd has been shot dead in Iraq, the Norwegian
foreign ministry said yesterday, as media here
reported that her husband had been arrested for
allegedly committing the deed.
"We have received a report that a Norwegian woman
has been killed in Iraq," foreign ministry spokesman
Karsten Klepsvik said.
Norwegian news agency NTB and public broadcaster NRK
quoted Iraqi sources saying her husband had been
arrested for her murder.
Earlier reports said that the woman, Marita Stroem,
38, had been shot dead by an unidentified attacker
while she was driving her car in Suleimaniya in
northern Iraq.
"One person has been arrested suspected of the
murder," Klepsvik confirmed, but said he did not
know who that person was, and that a random attack
had not been ruled out.
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other developments:
- Dozens of Iraqi troops surrounded the office of
radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the holy
city of Najaf on Monday, but backed off amid
pressure from Iraq's top Shiite cleric, Grand
Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, al-Sadr's supporters and
witnesses said. Al-Sadr's Mahdi militia led a
three-week uprising against U.S. and Iraqi forces in
Najaf that left hundreds dead and much of the city
devastated. The fighting ended with a peace deal
more than a week ago.
- Gunmen shot and killed a Norwegian woman
married to an Iraqi Kurd in the northern city of
Kirkuk and slightly wounded her daughter, police
said.
- U.S. and Iraqi national guardsmen clashed with
insurgents in the northern city of Mosul, the U.S.
military said. Hospital officials said three
civilians were killed and nine others wounded in the
fighting late Sunday.
- Iraqi police seized a car packed with explosives
in Kirkuk that authorities believed was going to be
used by a suicide bomber. The seizure came two days
after a suicide car bombing outside a Kirkuk police
academy killed 20 people and injured 50.
- Jordan said Monday that four drivers - three
Jordanian and one Sudanese - kidnapped in Iraq
recently have been released. An Iraqi militant group
calling itself the Shura Council of Fallujah
Mujahedeen said it had captured the four.
- French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin said
experts on Islamic militant groups were skeptical
about a Web posting demanding $5 million in ransom
for captured French journalists Christian Chesnot
and Georges Malbrunot. Intense negotiations by
French diplomats and overwhelming support from the
Arab world and France's own large Muslim community
failed last week to win their release.
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