Thursday, March 01, 2007
Brothers of Iraqi Accordance Front spokesman killed
Security, Politics
(VOI) Unidentified gunmen killed on Wednesday two brothers of the parliament member and spokesman for the Sunni Iraqi Accordance Front, Salim al-Juburi, a police source said. "Unidentified gunmen shot and killed on Wednesday morning two brothers of parliament member Salim al-Juburi in al-Mualmen neighborhood in Muqdadiya district," a police source said.
The mainly Sunni district of Muqdadiya, Diala province, is 100km northeast of Baghdad. Later, Al-Juburi told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI) over the phone that his brothers were killed in Muqdadiya district when unidentified gunmen attacked them there. "They died on the spot", he added. Al-Juburi has a doctorate in law and worked as a law professor in Diala University. Al-Juburi is the spokesman for the Sunni Iraqi Accordance Front (IAF), which has 44 seats out of 275-member parliament.
Labels: Iraqi Accordance Front, Muqdadiya, Salim al-Juburi
