Killed: Son of Iraq's top judge
13/05/2006 17:58  - (SA)  

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Baghdad - Gunmen have killed the son of Iraq's top judge, along with two of his son's bodyguards, and dumped their bodies in one of Baghdad's Sunni Arab neighbourhoods.

Iraqi police found the bodies of Ahmed Midhat al-Mahmoud, 22, a lawyer, and two of his bodyguards in northern Baghdad's Azamiyah district on Saturday, said Hasan Sabri, head of the local council.

Sabri said: "Three corpses were found in Azamiyah and the police identified one of them as the son of al-Mahmoud and the two others to his bodyguards, all of them dumped in the street."

The killing comes five months after Iraqi judge Midhat al-Mahmoud survived a December 4 suicide bomb attack at his home. Two people were injured in the attack.

The family is Shi'ite.

Al-Mahmoud's father heads the country's supreme judicial council, a judicial supervisory body which, among other things, swears in all judges and parliamentarians in Iraq.

The killings are the latest attacks against Iraqi government officials or their families.

They could also be part of a series of killings carried out by death squads and militias, who have kidnapped and killed hundreds of Sunni Arabs and Shi'[ites in the city, speculated police.

- AP

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