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ZURICH, Switzerland (Reuters) -- Switzerland
identified on Sunday a Swiss-Iraqi citizen shot dead
in Baghdad after his car was stopped by U.S.
soldiers last Tuesday.
Salah Jmor was a Swiss resident with dual
nationality, the Foreign Ministry said on Sunday. A
spokesman declined to give further details.
Swiss newspapers said Jmor, who had come to
Switzerland as a refugee 25 years ago, was of
Kurdish descent and had been involved in laying the
groundwork for political rule in Kurdistan province
under Iraq's new administration.
Jmor had been the Kurdistan Democratic Party's
candidate to become trade minister in the partially
autonomous Kurd provinces in Iraq, the leading Neue
Zuercher Zeitung newspaper said in its Sunday
edition.
He had also been a member of Switzerland's
Social-Democrat Party in his hometown near Geneva,
newspapers said.
Switzerland has asked the United States for
information on Jmor's death, the Foreign Ministry
said Saturday.
Jmor's brother, who was travelling with him, had
told Swiss authorities their car had been stopped by
a U.S. convoy and that Jmor had died from a gunshot
fired from the convoy, a spokesman for the ministry
said.
The spokesman declined to confirm details about
where the gunshot came from or who fired it, and
Switzerland has asked for more information from the
U.S. embassy in Iraq and from the State Department
and Pentagon in Washington.
It also asked for a police report on the incident
from the Iraqi Foreign Ministry.
Reuters
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