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Iraqi Interior Ministry Official Assassinated

HeadlineJul 26, 2004

In other news, an official in Iraq’s Interior Minister was shot dead earlier today along with his two bodyguards in Baghdad. Mussab al-Awadi is one of the highest-ranking Iraqi officials to have been assassinated since the so-called handover of power. Over the last month, at least six Baghdad councilors have aslo been assassinated as well as the governor of Mosul and the interim governor of Basra.

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