Toronto Star: Dean of Baghdad University gunned down
Gunmen killed the Shiite dean of Baghdad University’s school of administration and economics on Thursday, four days after the murder of a prominent Sunni academic.
Jassim al-Asadi had been driving with his family in the northern Baghdad neighbourhood of Azamiyah when the unidentified shooters pulled alongside and opened fire, police Lt. Ahmed Ibrahim said. Al-Asadi’s wife and son were also killed in the attack, Ibrahim said.
The shooting follows the killing on Monday of geologist Essam al-Rawi, head of the University Professor’s Union and a senior member of the hardline Sunni Association of Muslim Scholars, which is believed to have links to the anti-Shiite insurgency raging against U.S. forces and their Iraqi allies.
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