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Annex III: Attacks on Former Members of the Ba’ath Party, the Armed<br />
Forces and Security/Intelligence Servcies and Other Persons Affiliated With<br />
the Former Regime<br />
The following incidents have been reported since May 2003:<br />
• 12 February 2007: Gunmen killed a primary school guard in central Kut. The guard was<br />
a former member of the Ba’ath party. 873<br />
• 26 January 2007: Militiamen in Baghdad have kidnapped and killed ten senior officers<br />
of the former Iraq Army. Reportedly, they were on their way home following a<br />
government meeting held to bring back former army personnel into the Iraqi army. 874<br />
• 23 January 2007: Gunmen killed a suspected former member of the Ba’ath Party in the<br />
Governorate of Babel. 875<br />
• 17 January 2007: Gunmen shot dead a former member of the Ba’ath Party outside his<br />
home in Al-Za’afaraniya District in south-eastern Baghdad. 876<br />
• 6 January 2007: A former Ba’ath Party member was killed in a drive by shooting in<br />
Kifl, a town about 150 km south of Baghdad. 877<br />
• 6 January 2007: Gunmen killed two former members of the Ba’ath Party in two<br />
separate incidents in Najaf. 878<br />
• 6 January 2007: A former Ba’ath Party member was shot dead in Diwaniyah. 879<br />
• 3 January 2007: Gunmen killed two former Ba’ath Party officials near the town of<br />
Hilla. 880<br />
• 21 December 2006: Two gunmen shot dead a former member of the Ba’ath party in<br />
central Kerbala. 881<br />
• 21 December 2006: A former member of the Ba’ath Party was killed by gunmen in<br />
central Amarah. 882<br />
873<br />
Reuters Alertnet, Factbox – Security developments in Iraq, Feb 12, 12 February 2007,<br />
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSKHA231334.<br />
874<br />
See Azzaman, Militiamen kidnap and kill 10 former army officers, 26 January 2007,<br />
http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php?refid=DH-S-26-01-2007&article=13917<br />
875<br />
Borzou Daragahi, Uncertain helicopter crash reports in Iraq, Los Angeles Times, 23 January 2007,<br />
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-ex-iraq23jan24,1,5351278.story?coll=la-headlinesworld&track=crosspromo.<br />
876<br />
Voices of Iraq, Iraq-Security Highlights, 17 January 2007, http://www.aswataliraq.info/modules.php?<br />
op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=35352&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0.<br />
877<br />
Reuters Alertnet, Factbox – Security developments in Iraq, Jan 6, 6 January 2007,<br />
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL06738343.<br />
878<br />
Gulf News, 130 killed in new wave of violence, 7 January 2007, http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/<br />
1yr_arc_Articles.asp?Article=166619&Sn=WORL&IssueID=29293&date=1-7-2007.<br />
879<br />
Reuters Alertnet, Factbox – Security developments in Iraq, Jan 6, see above footnote 877.<br />
880<br />
Ibidem, Factbox – Security developments in Iraq, Jan 3, 3 January 2007, http://www.alertnet.org/<br />
thenews/newsdesk/L03128274.htm.<br />
881<br />
Voices of Iraq, Iraq-Security Highlights, 21 December 2006, http://gorillasguides.blogspot.com/<br />
2006/12/december-22nd-update2-news-in-english.html.<br />
882<br />
Ibid.<br />
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