Assassination of MP carries al-Qaeda’s fingerprints – interior ministry
June 15, 2009 - 03:16:44
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Iraqi Interior Ministry said on Monday that the assassination of lawmaker Hareth al-Ubeidi, who was gunned down inside a mosque in the capital on Friday (June 12), carries the fingerprints of al-Qaeda.
“Preliminary investigations assert that al-Qaeda stand behind the assassination of al-Ubeidi,” General Abdulkarim Khalaf, director of the national command center, told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
“The outcome of the investigations will be announced soon,” he added.
On Friday (June 12), a security source said Ubeidi was assassinated by an unidentified gunman inside al-Shawaf mosque in Baghdad’s district of al-Yarmuk.
“A gunman was hiding at one of the restrooms inside the mosque of al-Shawaf in al-Yarmuk, southwestern Baghdad, and opened fire from his Walther gun at Ubeidi, a legislator from the (Sunni) Iraqi Accord Front (IAF), who was then leading worshippers for the Friday congregational prayers,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The IAF had elected Ubeidi, a leading member of the Sunni Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP), by majority in early May to be the head of its parliamentary bloc, succeeding the incumbent Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament, Iyad al-Samarraie.
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