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Iraqi Christian official assassinated in Kirkuk (Extra)
Jul 12, 2009, 10:07 GMT
Baghdad - Aziz Rozko Hanna, director of the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk's Department of Financial Control, was assassinated on Sunday, police said.
Hanna, a Christian, was driving with his daughter in Kirkuk when gunmen pulled him from the car and shot him dead, police there told the German Press Agency dpa.
His daughter witnessed her father's murder, which took place in the predominantly Christian neighbourhood of Dumiz, police added.
Kirkuk, some 250 kilometres north of Baghdad, remains a source of dispute between the Kurdish Regional Government in northern Iraq and the central Iraqi government in Baghdad.
On June 24, the Kurdish parliament passed a draft constitution that included the city, and oil-rich areas around it, in its definition of Kurdistan. Arab members of Iraq's parliament swiftly condemned the move.
Kurdish voters will put the draft to referendum as part of Kurdish parliamentary elections scheduled for July 25.
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LRJul 14th, 2009 - 22:33:31
Ah....the religion of peace strikes again. When will the world learn?
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