Iraqi leader killed in Baghdad
2004-05-31 11:37
Baghdad - A member of the Iraqi Governing Council and Secretary General of the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) was killed on Monday in an attack in Baghdad.
Television news channel al-Arabiya reported that the Sunni Moslem politician Mohsen Abdel Hamid had been killed.
Mohsen Abdel Hamid's party played a key role in negotiating an end to the recent violence in Fallujah, acting as a middle-man between the US army and the residents of the mainly Sunni Moslem city of Fallujah. - Sapa-DPA
- SAPA