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• 13 November 2006: Five employees of the state-owned North Oil Company were
ambushed and killed in the northern outskirts of Baghdad as they drove into the
capital. 929
• 15 October 2006: Gunmen assassinated Raad Al-Haiali, a provincial official and a
member of the IIP in Mosul. 930
• 25 September 2006: On 25 September, the Minister of Health, Dr. Ali Al-Shemmari,
survived an assassination attempt. 931
• 16 July 2006: Adil Mohamed Al-Qazaz, the President of the Northern Oil Company,
was abducted by gunmen in Baghdad. 932
• 10 July 2006: A member of Diyala Governorate Council, Adnan Iskandar Al-Mahdawi,
was killed and two of his guards were wounded in a drive-by shooting. 933
• 10 July 2006: Unidentified gunmen assassinated an official in the IIP and two of his
guards. 934
• 1 July 2006: Lawmaker Tayseer Al-Mashhadani of the National Accord Front was
kidnapped when travelling from her home in Baqouba with eight bodyguards when
gunmen in two vehicles hijacked her convoy in a Shi’ite neighbourhood in Baghdad.
She was released nearly two months later on 26 August 2006. 935
• 26 June 2006: Ten employees of a state-owned agricultural research centre were
abducted in Taji. 936
• 6 June 2006: Gunmen in Baghdad kidnapped the Director General of the State
Company for Oil Projects, Muthana Al-Badri in northern Baghdad. 937
• 6 June 2006: Four Iraqi employees of the state-owned Northern Oil Company were
kidnapped in Kirkuk on 6 June 2006. 938
• 10 May 2006: Gunmen assassinated the leader of the IIP in Al-Zubayr in the
Governorate of Basrah. 939
• 10 May 2006: Gunmen riding in two cars assassinated a Defence Ministry press office
employee as he drove to work. 940
928 UNAMI HRO, December 2006 Human Rights Report, p. 15, see above footnote 10.
929 Reuters Alertnet, Factbox – Security developments in Iraq, Nov 13, 13 November 2006,
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IBO356703.htm.
930 Kirk Semple, 5 Americans Killed in Iraq, Bringing Month’s Toll to 53, The New York Times, 16 October
2006, http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/10/16/world/middleeast/16iraq.html.
931 UNAMI HRO, October 2006 Human Rights Report, p. 5, see above footnote 66.
932 Paul von Zielbauer, Gunmen Seize President of Iraqi Oil Company, International Herald Tribune, 16 July
2006, http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/07/16/news/iraq.php.
933 AP, Gunmen ambush bus in Baghdad, killing 7, 10 July 2006, http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/
iraq/2006-07-10-sunni-Shi’ite_x.htm.
934 UNAMI HRO, August 2006 Human Rights Report, p. 5, see above footnote 26.
935 CNN, Kidnapped Iraqi lawmaker released, 26 August 2006, http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/
08/26/iraq.main/index.html.
936 Borzou Daragahi, Peace plan could mean some Iraqi insurgents get amnesty, Los Angeles Times,
26 June 2006, http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003086002_iraq26.html.
937 Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, Iraq Pipeline Watch, http://www.iags.org/
iraqpipelinewatch.htm [accessed November 2006].
938 Daily Times, Gunmen kill 3 students, four policemen in Iraq, 8 June 2006, http://www.dailytimes.
com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5C06%5C08%5Cstory_8-6-2006_pg7_1.
939 AP, Iraqi president calls for an end to violence, 10 May 2006, http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/
iraq/2006-05-10-iraq-violence_x.htm.
940 Ibid.
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