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Annex VI: Attacks on Doctors and Other Medical Personnel<br />
The following incidents have been reported since February 2006:<br />
• 20 January 2007: Salah Mehdi Hamza, a popular children’s doctor who had been<br />
kidnapped on 16 January in Baghdad, was found dead, even though his family handed<br />
over a US $40,000 ransom and a box full of jewels and gold ornaments. He had already<br />
been kidnapped twice. The first time was for three weeks when he was forcibly taken to<br />
Fallujah, the Sunni insurgent stronghold, to care for the wounded. 973<br />
• 15 May 2006: Unknown gunmen assassinated Dr. Adnan Abbas Al-Hashemy after he<br />
was leaving his private clinic in Mosul. Reportedly, two other doctors were killed the<br />
same week in Mosul. 974<br />
• 8 May 2006: Unidentified gunmen arrived in two private cars to the Al-Zayzafon<br />
pharmacy in Al-Sukar District in Mosul. The men took the pharmacist Fadhel Ezalddin<br />
Nidham and executed him in public before setting the pharmacy on fire. 975<br />
• 9 April 2006: Several armed men gunned down Dr. Darb Mohammed Al-Mousawi,<br />
Director of the Ear, Nose and Throat Centre of the University of Baghdad at the door of<br />
his clinic in Baghdad’s Adhamiya neighbourhood. 976<br />
• 12 February 2006: Halit Ali was killed after he left home to go to work at the state<br />
hospital of Hawija near Kirkuk. 977<br />
• 11 February 2006: Dr. Khalid Abdullah, who was working in the city hospital of<br />
Hawija, west of Kirkuk, was shot dead by masked gunmen who had barged into the<br />
hospital. 978<br />
973<br />
Patrick Cockburn, Children’s doctor among latest victims of Iraq kidnap epidemic, The Independent,<br />
26 January 2007, http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2186519.ece.<br />
974<br />
UNAMI HRO, October 2006 Human Rights Report, p. 5, see above footnote 66.<br />
975<br />
Ibidem, June 2006 Human Rights Report, p. 6, see above footnote 27.<br />
976<br />
Ibidem, April 2006 Human Rights Report, p. 10, see above footnote 74.<br />
977<br />
Turks.US, Doctor and Contractor Killed in Kerkuk Iraq, 12 February 2006, http://www.turks.us/article~<br />
story~20060212105931442.htm.<br />
978<br />
AP, Kidnapped contractor, doctor killed in Iraq, 12 February 2006, http://www.abc.net.au/news/<br />
newsitems/200602/s1568007.htm.<br />
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