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Annex VII: Attacks on Judicial Personnel<br />
The following incidents were reported since January 2005:<br />
• 10 December 2006: lawyer Nawfel Al-Chalabi was kidnapped in front of the New<br />
Baghdad Courthouse. 979<br />
• 23 November 2006: the Director of Legal Affairs in the Council of Ministers, Ali<br />
Muthafar Abdel Wahhab, was shot dead by gunmen in front of his house in Hay Al-<br />
Dawoudi in Al-Mansour area in Baghdad. 980<br />
• 19 November 2006: Judge Muthafer Al-Obaidy, who also worked with the Council of<br />
Ministers, was kidnapped by unidentified gunmen from his house in Al-Khadra area in<br />
Baghdad. 981<br />
• 15 November 2006: Judge Naim Al-Akeli, head of the Al-Kharkh Criminal Court in<br />
Baghdad was killed by a roadside bomb. 982<br />
• 2 November 2006: Gunmen killed Tariq Abid Ali, a judge in Baqouba’s Criminal<br />
Court, along with his son Ziyad. 983<br />
• On 16 October 2006: Emad Al-Faroon, the brother of the Chief Prosecutor in the<br />
current Anfal trial, was killed by gunmen in front of his wife, in the neighbourhood of<br />
Al-Jamaa in Baghdad. The couple had earlier left their home as it had become unsafe<br />
for them and had only returned to collect personal possessions. 984<br />
• 9 October 2006: Mithat Salih, a public notary in the town of Madaen, was shot dead on<br />
his way to work. 985<br />
• 4 October 2006: Abdel Muttaleb Al-Haidari, a prominent lawyer, was shot dead by<br />
unknown assailants inside his house in Al-Amiriyah area in Baghdad. 986<br />
• 29 September 2006: Kadhim Abdel Hussein, the brother-in-law of Mohammed Oreibi<br />
Al-Khalifa, the chief judge in the Anfal trial, was shot dead along with his son, while<br />
two other relatives were severely wounded. The victims were shot when Kadhim, who<br />
had left his home several months earlier due to security risks, went to pick up some<br />
possessions. 987<br />
• 3 September 2006: The body of Abdel Monem Yassin Hussein, an assistant to lawyer<br />
Badih Aref Izzat, one of the defence lawyers in the trial of Saddam Hussein, was<br />
reportedly found in the Medico-Legal Institute of Baghdad. He had been kidnapped on<br />
29 August 2006. 988<br />
979<br />
UNAMI HRO, December 2006 Human Rights Report, p. 15, see above footnote 10.<br />
980<br />
Ibid.<br />
981<br />
Ibid.<br />
982<br />
Ibid.<br />
983<br />
Reuters Alertnet, Factbox – Security developments in Iraq, Nov 2, 2 November 2006,<br />
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL0270233920061103.<br />
984<br />
UNAMI HRO, October 2006 Human Rights Report, p. 9, see above footnote 66.<br />
985<br />
Ibid.<br />
986<br />
Ibid.<br />
987<br />
Ibid.; BBC News, Saddam judge relative shot dead, 29 September 2006, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/<br />
middle_east/5391674.stm.<br />
988<br />
UNAMI HRO, October 2006 Human Rights Report, p. 9, see above footnote 66.<br />
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