Friday, April 13, 2007

 

Iraqi Islamic Party offices attacked

Security, Politics
(Voices of Iraq) - Gunmen opened fire on Thursday against the headquarters of the Sunni Islamic Party in al-Iskandariya district, north of Hilla city, injuring one of its guards, a source in Babel police department said. “Gunmen opened fire from a car at the headquarters of the Islamic Party in al-Iskandariya district, north of Hilla, injuring one guard seriously,” the source told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).
“The wounded guard was rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment,” he added. The party is one of three components that form the Iraqi Accordance Front (IAF), a Sunni parliamentary bloc with 44 seats out of the 275-member parliament. The IAF recently threatened to withdraw parliament. Hilla is the capital city of Babel province and is located 100 km south of Baghdad.

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