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Annex IV: Attacks on Government Officials and Other Persons Associated
With the Current Iraqi Government, Administration and Institutions
The following incidents have been reported since February 2006:
• 6 February 2007: The Governor of Baghdad, Hussein Al-Tahhan, survived an
assassination attempt in an attack on his motorcade on the Baghdad-Kut highway en
route to the Governorate of Wassit to attend a conference for governors there. 919
• 1 February 2007: The Governor of Salah Al-Din Governorate, Mohammed Al-Qaisi,
survived a suicide bombing attack in a college campus of the Salah Al-Din University.
Insurgents targeted Al-Qaisi several times in the past, including a car bomb attack near
his convoy six months earlier in Tikrit. 920
• 2 January 2007: In Baqouba, gunmen killed Diyala Governorate Council member Ali
Majeed and three members of his family. 921
• 4 December 2006: A member of the IIP in Al-Karkh branch, Jawad Ahmad Al-Falahi,
was assassinated in Al-Amiriyah by gunmen as he was leaving his house. 922
• 28 November 2006: Kirkuk Governor. Abdul Rahman Mustafa survived an
assassination attempt when a suicide bomber blew himself up near the official’s
convoy, killing one civilian and wounding at least 12. It was the third assassination
attempt on his life. 923
• 24 November 2006: Sheikh Salih Naji Al-Messudi, a member of the Association of
Muslim Scholars, was kidnapped and his body found two days later. 924
• 20 November 2006: SCIRI members Ali-Flaih Al-Ghrani and Dr. Ali Al-Adhadh,
Member of Parliament from United Iraqi Alliance block, were killed in in Jbalah
District and in Hilla, respectively. 925
• 21 November 2006: The Deputy-Health Minister, Hakim Al-Zamili escaped an
assassination attempt. 926
• 20 November 2006: The body of an Iraqi leader from Al-Wifaq Front, Abdel Karim Al-
Obaidi was found. 927
• 19 November 2006: The Deputy-Health Minister, Ammar Al-Saffar, was kidnapped
from his house in Al-Adhamiya by 24 gunmen, some of whom were reportedly dressed
in Iraqi police uniforms. 928
919 Abdul-Jabbar al-Safarani, Baghdad governor survives assassination attempt, Voices of Iraq, 7 February
2007, http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php?refid=DH-S-07-02-2007&article=14283.
920 Xinhua, Iraqi provincial governor survives suicide attack, 1 February 2007, http://news.xinhuanet.com/
english/2007-02/01/content_5684809.htm.
921 Steven R. Hurst, Iraq: 12,000 Civilians Killed in ‘06, AP, 2 January 2007, http://www.breitbart.com/
news/2007/01/02/D8MDDKLG2.html.
922 UNAMI HRO, December 2006 Human Rights Report, p. 16, see above footnote 10.
923 AP, Iraqi governor escapes an assassination attempt by a suicide bomber, 28 November 2006,
http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/12164; Al Jazeera, Iraqi governor survives bomb blast, 18
November 2006, http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E2E10231-2A5B-4305-B1A8-CB55FC69D691.htm.
924 UNAMI HRO, December 2006 Human Rights Report, p. 16, see above footnote 10.
925 Ibid.
926 Ibidem, p. 15.
927 Ibidem, p. 16.
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