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Iraqi governor killed in attack
The governor of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul has been killed in an attack, Iraqi sources have said.
An interior ministry source was quoted as saying assailants threw a hand grenade and opened fire on Usama Kashmula's car.
One report says two people travelling with the governor on his way to Baghdad were also killed.
It comes hours after a car bomb blew up in the capital, killing at least 10 people and injuring about 40.
Gunfight
Officials said Mr Kashmula was attacked about 100 km south of Mosul.
"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," an unnamed interior ministry source was quoted by Reuters as saying.
One report said four people ambushed the convoy.
Hazem Jalawi, a spokesman for the governate, told AFP news agency the attackers were killed in an ensuing gun battle with Mr Kashmula's bodyguards.
Last month, more than 60 people were killed in a series of car bombings on a single day in Mosul.
'Naked aggression'
The killing of Mr Kashmula came hours after a car bomb rocked Baghdad in the deadliest attack since the interim Iraqi government took office at the end of last month.
The blast happened at a pick-up and drop-off point in the area previously known as the Green Zone, the huge closed-off complex that until June was the headquarters of the US-led authorities in Iraq.
The BBC's Peter Greste, who was in the area at the time off the blast, said a Toyota truck blew up just 50m behind him.
Pieces of shrapnel rained down and there was gunfire as security guards struggled to control the panic.
Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, who visited the scene, vowed to crush those responsible for the attack.
"This is a naked aggression against the Iraqi people. We will bring these criminals to justice."
He suggested the suspected suicide blast might have been in response to a police operation in Baghdad this week that led to the arrest of more than 500 suspects.
In western Iraq, US troops clashed with insurgents in the flashpoint Sunni city of Ramadi, about 100km (60 miles) from Baghdad, witnesses said.
One report quoted an Iraqi doctor as saying three people had been killed and 19 wounded.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3894653.stm
One report says two people travelling with the governor on his way to Baghdad were also killed.
It comes hours after a car bomb blew up in the capital, killing at least 10 people and injuring about 40.
Gunfight
Officials said Mr Kashmula was attacked about 100 km south of Mosul.
"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," an unnamed interior ministry source was quoted by Reuters as saying.
One report said four people ambushed the convoy.
Hazem Jalawi, a spokesman for the governate, told AFP news agency the attackers were killed in an ensuing gun battle with Mr Kashmula's bodyguards.
Last month, more than 60 people were killed in a series of car bombings on a single day in Mosul.
'Naked aggression'
The killing of Mr Kashmula came hours after a car bomb rocked Baghdad in the deadliest attack since the interim Iraqi government took office at the end of last month.
The blast happened at a pick-up and drop-off point in the area previously known as the Green Zone, the huge closed-off complex that until June was the headquarters of the US-led authorities in Iraq.
The BBC's Peter Greste, who was in the area at the time off the blast, said a Toyota truck blew up just 50m behind him.
Pieces of shrapnel rained down and there was gunfire as security guards struggled to control the panic.
Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, who visited the scene, vowed to crush those responsible for the attack.
"This is a naked aggression against the Iraqi people. We will bring these criminals to justice."
He suggested the suspected suicide blast might have been in response to a police operation in Baghdad this week that led to the arrest of more than 500 suspects.
In western Iraq, US troops clashed with insurgents in the flashpoint Sunni city of Ramadi, about 100km (60 miles) from Baghdad, witnesses said.
One report quoted an Iraqi doctor as saying three people had been killed and 19 wounded.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3894653.stm
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Attackers have killed the governor of the Iraqi city of Mosul as he was driving in a convoy of vehicles towards Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source has said.
The assailants threw a grenade at the governor's vehicle and fired automatic weapons, the source said on Wednesday.
"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.
A spokesman for the governorate has confirmed that the governor of Mosul, Usama Kachmula, and two people who were accompanying him were killed.
"The governor was killed in the region of T'lul al-Baj, 110 km south of Mosul, with two people who were with him," said the spokesman Hazam Jalawi, without explaining how they died.
Several senior officials working for the interim Iraqi government, which took power from the US-led occupying coalition barely two weeks ago, have been assassinated recently.
Earlier, unknown armed men also shot dead a senior official from Iraqi's industry ministry as he left his home in Baghdad to go to work, said an interior ministry spokesman.
The attack on Sabir Karim, a director general at the ministry, took place on Tuesday morning, said Colonel Adnan Abd al-Rhaman, adding that the assailants then fled the scene.
'Al-Qaida' suspects detained
In the southern Iraqi city of Najaf a group suspected for having ties to al-Qaida were arrested, reported Aljazeera.
Colonel Ghalib al-Jazaery, Najaf's police commissioner, was quoted as saying that the group was involved in last year's assassination of Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim, the head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution.
They are also accused of carrying out a string of attacks in Karbala last year.
Aljazeera + Agencies
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/477B6BCD-6A1A-493D-A944-4FB55BF22E69.htm
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