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Daqouq (Iraq) : A man who was an intelligence
officer in the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein
committed suicide after news that Jalal Talabani was
sworn in as President of Iraq.
Captain Hatem Ahmad al-Shallal shot himself in the
village of Daqouq, 60 kilometres south of Kirkuk,
the source quoted al-Shallal's relatives as saying.
The officer had been "in an abnormal hysterical
state" since Mr Talabani was sworn in as President
last Thursday.
"He could not accept the idea of a non-Arab as
President of an Iraqi state," the source quoted the
relatives as saying.
Mr Talabani, a Kurd, is an old foe of Saddam.
After the 1991 Gulf war, he helped lead a full-scale
uprising against Saddam, resulting in a US-backed
autonomous Kurdish enclave in the north.
DPA
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