BREAKING NEWS- SENIOR IRAQI OFFICIAL ASSASSINATED
Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 10:49 am
CNN just reported a senior Iraqi government official has just been asssasinated. Details soon.
Attackers Kill Governor of Iraqi City of Mosul
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Attackers killed the governor of the Iraqi city of Mosul Wednesday as he was driving in a convoy of vehicles toward Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.
The assailants threw a grenade at the governor's vehicle and fired automatic weapons, the source said.
"He was on his way to Baghdad with a security escort of four cars, when the attackers in another car pulled up beside his vehicle and threw a grenade, and then shot at his car," said the source, who declined to be named.
Iraqi officials have frequently been targeted for assassination by insurgents battling U.S.-led troops and Iraqi security forces in the country.