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Annex V: Attacks on Professors, Teachers and Students<br />
The following incidents have been reported since April 2006:<br />
• 13 February 2007: Up to 16 people are reported to have been killed and 27 wounded<br />
after a suicide bomber detonated explosives in a van near the College of Economic<br />
Sciences in Baghdad. 945<br />
• 1 February 2007: Gunmen broke into the Physical Education College of Diyala in<br />
Baqouba and killed the Dean, Walhan Hamed Al-Rubaie. 946<br />
• 29 January 2007: A law student, Ali Abdul-Mutalib Al-Hashimi, and three professors,<br />
Adnan Al-Abid, Abdel Muttaleb Al-Hashemi and Amer Al-Qaissi were abducted from<br />
Nahrein University in Baghdad as they were leaving the university in the Khadimiyah<br />
District. Their bodies were found in Baghdad’s central morgue three days later. 947<br />
• 23 January 2007: Shi’ite professor and economist Diya Al-Meqoter was shot dead in<br />
Baghdad’s Adhamiya neighbourhood. He was widely known for his programme on<br />
Sharqiya television channel during which he interviewed a group of poor people who<br />
presented their ideas for starting a small business. He was teaching economics at the Al-<br />
Mustansiriya University and also headed the Consumer Association. 948<br />
• 22 January 2007: Gunmen killed a female teacher on her way to work at a girls’ school<br />
in the mainly Sunni neighbourhood of Khadra in western Baghdad. 949<br />
• 17 January 2007: At least 70 people, including students and teachers, were killed and<br />
more than 170 others injured as a suicide bomber and a car bomb exploded at the<br />
entrance of Al-Mustansiriya University in east Baghdad. 950<br />
• 21 December 2006: Dr. Muntather Mohammed Al-Hamadani, the Assistant Dean at the<br />
Faculty of Law at Al-Mustansiriya University and Dr. Ali Jassam, were assassinated by<br />
unknown gunmen in Al-Slaikh area.<br />
• 11 December 2006: Gunmen kidnapped five teachers of one primary school near Al-<br />
Dijeel village. 951<br />
• 5 December 2006: Professor Abdul Hameed Al-Harith, the head of the Psychological<br />
and Educational Studies Office in Baghdad University, was killed in central Baghdad<br />
on his way to work. 952<br />
945<br />
Al Jazeera, Bomber strikes near Baghdad college, 13 February 2007, http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/<br />
exeres/0627A091-AB98-45A0-8A03-28AA4B4F110D.htm.<br />
946<br />
Reuters Alertnet, Factbox – Security developments in Iraq, Feb 1, 1 February 2007,<br />
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSYAT15750720070201.<br />
947<br />
AP, Bodies of three Sunni professors and a student found, three days after their abduction, 31 January<br />
2007, http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2007/January/focusoniraq<br />
_January208.xml§ion=focusoniraq.<br />
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AP, Professor and economist who helped the poor is shot dead in Baghdad, 23 January 2007,<br />
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/23/africa/ME-GEN-Iraq-Professor-Killed.php.<br />
949<br />
CBS / AP, Deadly Day Claims 100 Iraqis, 22 January 2007, http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/<br />
22/iraq/main2381540.shtml.<br />
950<br />
BBC News, Bombers rock Baghdad university, see above footnote 574.<br />
951<br />
UNAMI HRO, December 2006 Human Rights Report, p. 16, see above footnote 10.<br />
952<br />
DPA, Security official, academic killed in Baghdad, 7 December 2006, http://news.monstersandcritics.<br />
com/middleeast/news/article_1230649.php/Security_official_academic_killed_in_Baghdad.<br />
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