{"id":1769,"date":"2006-11-02T08:56:37","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T16:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2006\/11\/dean-of-baghdad-university-gunned-down\/"},"modified":"2006-11-02T08:56:37","modified_gmt":"2006-11-02T16:56:37","slug":"dean-of-baghdad-university-gunned-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2006\/11\/dean-of-baghdad-university-gunned-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean of Baghdad University gunned down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Toronto Star<\/i>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/NASApp\/cs\/ContentServer?pagename=thestar\/Layout\/Article_Type1&amp;col=968705899037&amp;c=Article&amp;cid=1162464727819&amp;call_pageid=968332188492\">Dean of Baghdad University gunned down<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gunmen killed the Shiite dean of Baghdad University&#8217;s school of administration and economics on Thursday, four days after the murder of a prominent Sunni academic.<br \/>\nJassim 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&#8217;s wife and son were also killed in the attack, Ibrahim said.<br \/>\nThe shooting follows the killing on Monday of geologist Essam al-Rawi, head of the University Professor&#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto Star: Dean of Baghdad University gunned down Gunmen killed the Shiite dean of Baghdad University&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2006\/11\/dean-of-baghdad-university-gunned-down\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}