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Slain Kurdish MP buried in Kurdistan
Region (Iraq)
7.10.2006 |
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SULAIMANIYAH,
Kurdistan Region (Iraq), October 7, -- Assassinated
Kurdish lawmaker Mohammed Redha Mahmud was laid to
rest on Saturday in the northern Iraqi city of
Sulaimaniyah, mourned as a victim of the country's
"blind sectarian war".
The corpse of Mahmud -- a religious conservative and
the first member of the current parliament to be
assassinated -- was found with that of his
bodyguard, both of them riddled with bullets, in the
streets of Baghdad on Thursday.
He had been meeting with members of the Sunni
organization that manages mosque affairs across the
country.
"We do not know the killers, but it is a despicable
act against a prominent member of our party," said
Ali Babir, a leader of the Islamic Group of
Kurdistan, part of the Kurdish Alliance bloc in
parliament.
"His killing is the result of the blind sectarian
war that has left its trace on every Iraqi," he
said.
The funeral was attended by a number of Kurdish
government officials as well as parliamentarians.
Baghdad is the midst of a tense sectarian struggle
that sees death squads and assassination cells
roaming the streets killing members of rival
communities.
Legislators in Iraq's fledgling state have always
been under threat from armed groups and generally
travel with several bodyguards.
AFP
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