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Gunmen
murdered a Turkish driver and an Iraqi Kurdish
official in separate attacks in the northern Iraqi
city of Mosul yesterday, writes Tom Walker.
Witnesses of the shooting of the Turkish driver saw
the militants proclaim their loyalty to the Al-Qaeda
terrorist network after the attack. They said that
the driver was attacked because he was carrying
supplies to American troops.
The Kurdish official worked for the Patriotic Union
of Kurdistan, one of the two Kurdish parties that
make up the second largest block in the Iraqi
national assembly.
Gunmen in two separate vehicles also shot dead an
Iraqi army officer in the Baghdad suburb of Abu
Ghraib.
Earlier yesterday the American military said that
four of its troops had been killed in Ramadi, 45
miles to the west of the capital. American troops
are engaged in a sweep into towns along the
Euphrates valley to flush out insurgents. Another
soldier died in a crash near Tikrit, north of
Baghdad.
Meanwhile, the Shi’ite spiritual leader Grand
Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq’s most powerful
religious authority, called on bickering members of
the United Iraqi Alliance, which won the country’s
election in January, to cast aside their differences
and form a government.
www.timesonline.co.uk
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