UNHCR's ELIGIBILITY GUIDELINES FOR ASSESSING THE ...

• 17 December 2003: An angry mob dragged Ali Al-Zalimi, a former regional chief of
the Ba’ath party, from his car and beat him to death in Najaf. He was believed to have
helped repress the 1991 Shi’ite uprising. 906
• October 2003: Kasim Al-Falahi, former Iraqi Ambassador to Lebanon, who headed the
Iraqi Intelligence Service in southern Iraq from 1996 to 1998, was abducted by gunmen.
His body was found two days later with a single bullet through his forehead. 907
• October 2003: Six unknown gunmen sprayed the house of Qassem Al-Hantawi,
a former brigadier with the Iraqi Intelligence Service, in Baghdad. While Al-Hantawi
survived, four former colleagues of his were killed, including Assam Al-Douri, who left
his job as an accountant in the Iraqi Intelligence Service 15 years ago and had
reportedly even cancelled his membership in the Ba’ath Party. 908
• October 2003: Mohammed Abdul Nabi Al-Gishi and Muhsen Abdul Wahid Al-Hajama,
school principals, teachers and division commanders in the Ba’ath Party, were killed in
two different incidents in Basrah. Reportedly, they were responsible for arresting
people. 909
• September 2003: Dr. Abdullah Al-Fadhil was killed by gunmen shot in his car as he
was leaving the College of Medicine in Basrah. He was known to have enforced
a decree to cut off the ears of army deserters. 910
• 4 June 2003: Shaikh Ali Sa’adoun, head of the Sa’adoun tribe, was killed by four
gunmen. The tribe had maintained close ties with the former Government and some of
its members were local officials. 911
• 17 May 2003: The singer Daoud Qais, known for his odes to former President Saddam
Hussein, was shot dead. 912
• 16 May 2003: A man called Salam had reportedly killed Najm Abud, the son of a
Ba’ath Party member suspected of ordering the execution of Salam’s brother in Al-
Amarah. The family of Najm Abud reportedly retaliated immediately, killing Salam and
setting fire to his house. 913
• 14 May 2003: Karim Hamid Qasem Al-Azawi, a barber, was shot dead by two masked
gunmen while at work in Basrah. His family told AI that he might have been killed
because he was a member of the Ba’ath Party, despite the fact that he had been
imprisoned by the former regime. 914
• 13 May 2003: An attempt to kill a Ba’ath Party member in the Al-Hartha area of Basrah
resulted in clashes between two tribal groups in which at least five people died and
three were wounded. 915
• 10 May 2003: Falah Dulaimi, the assistant dean of the Mustansiriya University’s
College of Sciences, was shot by students as he walked to his campus office. He was
906 Ibid.
907 Ratnesar, see above footnote 508.
908 Ibid.
909 Brinkley, see above footnote 510.
910 Ibid.
911 AI, Iraq – The need for security, see above footnote 510.
912 Wilson, see above footnote 510.
913 AI, Iraq – The need for security, see above footnote 510.
914 Ibid.
915 Ibid.
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