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• 10 June 2006: Ahmad Abdul Wadir Abdullah, a Sunni Arab professor at the College of Chemistry in the University of Basrah, was killed. 964 • 23 May 2006: A high school teacher, Nazar Qadir, was killed in a drive-by shooting on his way to work near Kirkuk city. 965 • 15 May 2006: Four teachers were reportedly killed en route to their school near the town of Balad Ruz. 966 • 12 May 2006: A Shi’a professor, Widad Al-Shimri, and her seven-year-old daughter were slain as they drove through Baqouba in the Governorate of Diyala. 967 • 12 May 2006: A professor of Islamic law, Khalaf Al-Jumaili, was shot dead after assailants stopped his car in Fallujah. 968 • 2 May 2006: Mohammed Abdul-Raheem Al-Ani, a professor at Al-Mustansiriya University and a doctorate student in the College of Islamic Sciences of Baghdad University as well as a member of the Muslim Scholars Association, was allegedly arrested by members of the Ministry of Interior. His body was found in the Forensic Medicine Morgue in Baghdad. 969 • May 2006: At least seven university students were assassinated in Mosul. 970 • 19 April 2006: Gunmen opened fire against staff members at Baqouba University killing three university professors. 971 • 24 April 2006: Two car bombs exploded in front of Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad, causing the death of three persons and injuring 25 others. Another bomb detonated near the Technical Medical Institute in Bab Al-Mouatham in Baghdad, killing three persons. 972 964 Ibid. 965 AP, Wave of sectarian violence leaves 41 dead across Iraq, 23 May 2006, http://www.iht.com/articles/ 2006/05/23/news/iraq.php. 966 CNN, Mortar attacks wound 4 British soldiers; 4 teachers killed near Baquba, 15 May 2006, http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/05/14/sunday/index.html?eref=sitesearch. 967 Al Jazeera, Iraq kidnappings thwarted, US says, 14 May 2006, http://english.aljazeera.net/News/ archive/archive?ArchiveId=22722. 968 Ibid. 969 UNAMI HRO, June 2006 Human Rights Report, p. 5, see above footnote 27. 970 Ibidem, p. 6. 971 Ibid. 972 Ibid. 190
Annex VI: Attacks on Doctors and Other Medical Personnel The following incidents have been reported since February 2006: • 20 January 2007: Salah Mehdi Hamza, a popular children’s doctor who had been kidnapped on 16 January in Baghdad, was found dead, even though his family handed over a US $40,000 ransom and a box full of jewels and gold ornaments. He had already been kidnapped twice. The first time was for three weeks when he was forcibly taken to Fallujah, the Sunni insurgent stronghold, to care for the wounded. 973 • 15 May 2006: Unknown gunmen assassinated Dr. Adnan Abbas Al-Hashemy after he was leaving his private clinic in Mosul. Reportedly, two other doctors were killed the same week in Mosul. 974 • 8 May 2006: Unidentified gunmen arrived in two private cars to the Al-Zayzafon pharmacy in Al-Sukar District in Mosul. The men took the pharmacist Fadhel Ezalddin Nidham and executed him in public before setting the pharmacy on fire. 975 • 9 April 2006: Several armed men gunned down Dr. Darb Mohammed Al-Mousawi, Director of the Ear, Nose and Throat Centre of the University of Baghdad at the door of his clinic in Baghdad’s Adhamiya neighbourhood. 976 • 12 February 2006: Halit Ali was killed after he left home to go to work at the state hospital of Hawija near Kirkuk. 977 • 11 February 2006: Dr. Khalid Abdullah, who was working in the city hospital of Hawija, west of Kirkuk, was shot dead by masked gunmen who had barged into the hospital. 978 973 Patrick Cockburn, Children’s doctor among latest victims of Iraq kidnap epidemic, The Independent, 26 January 2007, http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2186519.ece. 974 UNAMI HRO, October 2006 Human Rights Report, p. 5, see above footnote 66. 975 Ibidem, June 2006 Human Rights Report, p. 6, see above footnote 27. 976 Ibidem, April 2006 Human Rights Report, p. 10, see above footnote 74. 977 Turks.US, Doctor and Contractor Killed in Kerkuk Iraq, 12 February 2006, http://www.turks.us/article~ story~20060212105931442.htm. 978 AP, Kidnapped contractor, doctor killed in Iraq, 12 February 2006, http://www.abc.net.au/news/ newsitems/200602/s1568007.htm. 191
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY A. Current Situat
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and gatherings, Shi’ite religious
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Iraqi Asylum-Seekers From Central a
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countries. While a good part of the
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evenues. 41 An understanding of var
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Article 140 of the Constitution cal
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the Middle East in terms of women
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epealed the CPA’s decision to sus
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Al-Sunna. In addition, members of t
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military commander in Iraq, General
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to Osama Bin Laden, the Shi’ites
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an international court. 261 Several
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prohibition to kill, lie, commit ad
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government offices, 441 and changin
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security, of transferring hundreds
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after their release. 660 UNAMI HRO
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violence on a daily basis. Ordinary
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cause. 733 More than one Convention
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