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• 5 December 2006: Dr. Mohammed Haidar Sulaiman, a professor in the Physical
Education Faculty of one of Baghdad’s universities, was assassinated by unknown
gunmen. 953
• 20 November 2006: Insurgents killed the President of the Scientific Department of
Mosul University and the Director of the Registration Department of the College of
Education in Kirkuk University. 954
• 2 November 2006: Gunmen killed Jassim Al-Asadi, the Dean of Baghdad
University’s School of Administration and Economics. 955
• November 2006: The body of Dr. Najdat Al-Salihi, a psychology professor at Al-
Mustansiriya University in Baghdad, was found after his disappearance three weeks
earlier. 956
• 30 October 2006: Unknown gunmen killed Dr. Essam Al-Rawi, Professor in the
Geology Department of the University of Baghdad, head of the Professor’s Union
and a senior member of the Association of Muslim Scholars as he was leaving his
Baghdad home. 957
• 21 August 2006: A teacher was killed by gunmen in Balad Ruz, about 50 kilometres
east of Baqouba. 958
• 21 June 2006: Gunmen killed the dean of the Abdullah Bin Om Kalthoum School in
Al-Zubayr, in Basrah, during the final examinations. He was reportedly killed in
front of his students. 959
• 19/20 June 2006: A group of armed men, allegedly from the Ministry of Interior,
attacked the students’ dormitory at the University of Kufa during the night.
According to information received by UNAMI HRO, the men beat the students
severely and shot inside the premises, wounding some of the students and destroying
property. Tens of students were reportedly arrested and tortured after the incident. 960
• 18 June 2006: On 18 June, gunmen killed Modhaer Zayed Al-Dabagh, a lecturer in
the Computer College of Mosul University, in front of the Ministry of Interior in
Baghdad. 961
• 16 June 2006: Sheikh Yousif Al-Hussein, Dean of Al-Hassan Al-Basri School, was
killed in Basrah. 962
• 15 June 2006: Qasim Yousif Yacoub, a lecturer at Basrah University, was killed. 963
953
UNAMI HRO, December 2006 Human Rights Report, p. 16, see above footnote 10.
954
Ibid.
955
AP, Baghdad University dean is assassinated, 2 November 2006, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/
15525444/.
956
Bryan Bender and Farah Stockman, Iraq’s violent “brain drain” called a threat to future, The Boston
Globe, 30 November 2006, http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2006/11/30/iraqs_violent_brain_
drain_called_a_threat_to_future/.
957
Aparisim Ghosh, Baghdad Bulletin: Death Stalks the Campus, Time Magazine, 2 November 2006,
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1553793,00.html.
958
CNN, Attacks kill at least 10 Iraqis, 21 August 2006, http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/
08/21/iraq.main/.
959
UNAMI HRO, June 2006 Human Rights Report, p. 6, see above footnote 27.
960
Ibid.
961
Ibid.
962
Ibid.
963
UNAMI HRO, June 2006 Human Rights Report, p. 6, see above footnote 27.
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