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8 Killed, 6 Wounded

Good Morning,

This morning in Baghdad, men burst into a trading company and killed 8 employees.
Gunmen lined up 14 employees working at an electronics trading company in Baghdad this morning and shot them all, killing eight and wounding six, police said.

Iraqi politicians working on forming a national unity government postponed talks scheduled for today, saying they needed more time to consult their political blocs about what the security powers of the new government’s prime minister should be.

The motive of the attack at the al-Ibtikar trading company in the upscale Mansour neighbourhood was not immediately clear. According to survivors’ accounts to police, the assailants first asked for the company’s manager, who was not there, before firing on the employees.

The survivors said the assailants, some of whom were wearing police uniforms, identified themselves as intelligence agents from the Iraqi Interior Ministry.

Hundreds of Iraqis have been killed in sectarian violence and by death squads operating inside the Shiite-dominated Interior Ministry since the February 22 bombing of an important Shiite shrine in Samarra set off a wave of revenge attacks.

Usually, the victims are killed secretively, their bodies discovered hours or days later.

The assault today was the second to target a trading company in Mansour this week.


Have a nice day.

posted by Wink @ 7:58 AM